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Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>Individual researchers and smaller research groups at a number of universities carry outfinancial history research. An increased interest in this area after the financial crisis in 2008-09 has opened up new possibilities for comparative research. The Department of EconomicHistory has had close contacts during the last decades with especially researchers in Norwayand Denmark (BI in Oslo and Copenhagen Business School), but also with for example theGeneva University and several research centres in Paris. Moreover, there are largepossibilities to increase the co-operation with for example the university in Glasgow.Concerning the area of the labour market and welfare, most of the labour market research atthe department is conducted from a historical, neo-institutional perspective, but othertheoretical points of view are used as well, on their own or as a complement. For instance, agender perspective has successfully been used in several research projects, as well as classand ethnicity. In the past few years, industrial relations and the functioning of the labourmarket have been major fields of interest. The discussion on economic integration andespecially the development of the European Union in terms of a changing working life havealso been in focus. Further, the editorial office of the international referee journal Economicand Industrial Democracy, published by Sage, is located at the department. The globalacademic impact of this journal gives the department and the labour market research anoutstanding academic position. One promising future development was a conference entitled“Challenges and Opportunities in Ageing Society” in Tokyo 2009 organized by thedepartment. The aim of the conference was to share experiences about achievements and ongoingresearch between Swedish and Japanese scholars in a multi-disciplinary setting, in orderto promote future cooperation.Since its start a main focus of the research conducted at by Uppsala STS has been thechanging view of the role of science in society. An overall research question concerns hownatural and social sciences are affected by an increasingly economist view of science, i.e. bydemands for a measurable outcome and for contributions possible to exploit directly in acommercial setting. Another important research question concerns the principles thatcontemporary research policy is resting on; its sources and influences. A third prioritizedresearch question is how research-based knowledge is used in society and business. A specialfocus is directed to the tension among innovation journeys which in the contemporary highlyspecialized business landscape stretch across company and national borders, whilegovernmental policy expects innovation benefits on a national level.Research in social and general economic history has been renewed during the last years as aresult of KoF-07. Since 2009 cultural economy has become a more accentuated research topicat the department. This is manifested by the new seminar series, and the network of KultEkohas positioned itself at the intersection of culture and economy and aims to gather historiansand other social scientists working in the borderland of economic research and culturalstudies. This interdisciplinary field is consciously interpreted in two different ways: 1. theeconomy of culture, which is the various economic contexts of cultural life, e.g. aesthetics inrelation to the social organisation and financing of culture or the impact of cultural heritage onthe economy (for nations, regions, companies). 2. economy as culture, or the study of theeconomy as one of many cultural practices. These approaches are theoretically different, butin many ways overlap and interconnect in the research practice.2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>The department is also engaged in the program Modernisation and Mobilisation: State,Nation and Gender in Europe 1600-2000, which is a research and higher-education programfinanced by STINT and Uppsala University in close connection with the Faculty of ModernHistory at Oxford University. The OXFORD-UPPSALA PROGRAMME began in 2008 andends up in 2011, hopefully with a continuation. The topic is to investigate, in a longcomparative perspective, how the countries in Europe were created and developed.iiThe research on the development of big business in Sweden has from the start been closelyconnected to similar research projects in other European countries. Currently we co-operatewith the following universities: University of Helsinki, Copenhagen Business School,University of Geneva, London School of Economics, University of Barcelona, BocconiUniversity in Milan, University of Bergen, University of Grenoble and University ofAntwerp. Our research has focused on several <strong>aspects</strong> of the development of big business, asfor example the industrial structure, the degree of internationalisation, ownership structureand the relationship between owners and managers. We are currently planning a publication atOxford University Press analysing the development of performance between large companiesin different countries. In this research area UCBH definitely is at the forefront of internationalresearch.The SALTSA programme (a research programme including the National institute of WorkingLife, and the union confederations of LO, TCO and Saco. Since July 2007 it is hosted by theDepartment of Economic History, Uppsala University. Researchers at the department havecooperated with researchers from IRES, France, London School of Economics, OSE,Belgium, ETUI-REHS, Belgium, the European University Institute, Italy, and the universitiesin Copenhagen, Aalborg, Helsinki, Warwick, Amstedam, Utrecht, Dublin, Milan,Stellenbosch, Wisconsin and Wisconsin-Madison.“Challenges and Opportunities in Ageing Society, University of TokyoUppsala STS has an exchange with all large STS environments in Sweden and most large STSenvironments in Europe and has had visiting researchers at among others Stanford University,Harvard University and Tokyo University. The STB-group, “Science, Technology Business”,is also deeply involved in an international research network on business interdependencies,the IMP Group. Starting as a reaction against prevailing market theory, the IMP Group hasemerged into a research network, based on the engagement of some three hundred researchersfrom all over the world. The work of the IMP Group is reported in some dozens books, about2000 papers and about 140 PhD studies. (See www.impgroup.org.)The KultEko network includes – among others –researchers from the following institutions:Centre of Fashion Studies, Stockholm University; Cultural Geography, Uppsala University;Economic History, Stockholm University; Tema Q, Linköping University; Nordiska Museet,Research department; Department of History of Science and Technology, KTH RoyalInstitute of Technology.Oxford Uppsala programme, The Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University.2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.In a five or ten year perspective the department will have developed and strengthened itsresearch base, especially with regard to the fields that were mentioned under A1. Besideskeeping up a wide research agenda that still includes a variety of different subjects, especiallyperhaps development studies, gender relations, the history of economic ideas, studies onagriculture and early industrialization, etc., the department will have further strengthened itsexpertise especially in relation to international research in five different areas. As noted in A1this development with regard to several of these five areas will be enhanced in relation to thecross-disciplinary centres that have been established at the department. The ordering below ofthe five different themes does not imply any order of priority between them.First, the department will continue to develop research in business and financial history with abase in UCBH, which to some extent was a result of the last KOF. Within this field furtherresearch on Swedish big business in the 20 th century as well on the changes taking place in theSwedish financial markets since 1945 – in comparison with other countries – can beenvisaged. So far research within UCBH and at the department has mainly concentrated onSwedish topics. However, at the moment there is a strong emphasis on increasingcollaboration with international research mileus, including the Nordic countries, Switzerland,Italy and the UK. This will be further developed in the coming years.Secondly, the department will enhance its research activities concerning working life and thelabour market. Also in this field attempts will be made to establish a cross-disciplinaryresearch seminar as well as projects together with other disciplines within the Faculty ofSocial Sciences as well as with researchers within the Faculties of Medicine andPharmacology. The department’s continued research expertise concerning the effects of EUregulations and international trends for the development of labour markets and welfaresystems will be strengthened. Here research activities can also build on different crossdisciplinaryprojects and programs that have existed at the department since the late 1990’s,especially within the SALTSA-programme and the doctoral school “Swedish model intransition”. The department hosts one of the major international journals concerning workinglife and work organization, Economic and Industrial Economy. In the future this will providea stable foundation for our own activities at the department. In connection with this, one canalso note the collaboration developed between Uppsala University and other Swedish majorresearch centres with the University of Tokyo on the Ageing Society which the departmenthosts. The issue of ageing includes <strong>aspects</strong> such as the future of the present welfare systemsboth in Sweden and globally, as well as how the labour market will be organised in the futuregiven the dramatic demographic changes that will occur.2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.While KOF 2007 showed that the department had been successful in developing new andinnovative research on a scale that was quite impressive given its size, it also highlightedsome weaknesses. One of them has already been mentioned: the rather weak base in the formof teaching at the undergraduate and advanced level. As noted above, this may involve somelong term threats to the department’s research, including its possibility to recruit doctoralstudents who can carry on research in fields in which the department has developedcomparative advantage over the years. Moreover, KOF also showed the need for some furtherconcentration, without giving up the department’s tradition in having a broad agenda foreconomic history research. After all economic history is a broad discipline with an unusualaffinity for collaborating with other disciplines and carrying out cross-disciplinary research.Still KOF showed the necessity to develop more specific research profiles at the department.Without doubt current efforts in this direction are a direct consequence of KOF 2007. Thisalso includes the efforts undertaken to collaborate with other disciplines in order to establishcross-disciplinary centers hosted by the department.A concrete result of KOF 2007 was also the recruitment of a new associate lecturer(biträdande lektor) financed by the university. This recruitment has played a significant rolein developing the seminar on Culture and Economy at the department which will lay the basefor further development in this field.A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsMagnus Eklund, 2007, Uppsala University Geijer Prize.Erik Magnusson, 2011, Uppsala University Geijer PrizeA9. Additional sources of informationUppsala Centre of Business History, http://www.ekhist.uu.se/ucbh/Labour market research, http://www.ekhist.uu.se/Saltsa/Saltsa.htm.STS centre, http://www.sts.uu.se/default.php2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 2Popular science papers/books 68Textbooks 5Spin-off commercial companies 5Governmental/societal assignments 14Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents, 219popular science presentations etc.):……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted dataClarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).During the year nine researchers had part time financing of external funding not included inthe extracted data. There are also three doctoral students with external funding.(For general comments, see part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Economic History v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of Peace and Conflict ResearchA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions and goals aswell defined as possible.The primary goal of research of the Department is to understand the causes and dynamics ofpeace and conflict. The goal is attained through maintaining and further enhancinginternationally recognized academic excellence. This means paying attention to newdevelopments in Social Science methodology, finding ways to integrate different researchthemes and deepening the Department’s commitment to national and internationalcollaboration, across disciplines and themes.Research at the Department is both basic and applied, and some projects are policydriven.A range of quantitative and qualitative methods is used, and several projects aremulti-method, with the Department gaining international attraction as a place ofmethodological strength and credible information. The Department houses a world-leadingdata-collection program – the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) – which provides aunique freely and globally accessible dataset for frontline research. In recent years this datahas been used by the Department’s researchers for statistical, comparative and case analyses.These traits make the Department the most ‘complete’ research department of its kind inScandinavia, and it is internationally recognized as one of the foremost institutions in itsfield. The research falls into three thematic areas which partly overlap: 1) causes anddynamics of conflict; 2) peace processes, and 3) sustainable peace.Research on (1) includes work related to different types of organized violence andarmed conflict. Ongoing projects address topics such as violence against civilians,peacekeepers and humanitarian workers; rebel mobilization and recruitment; aid and conflict;causes and effects of electoral violence; causes of communal conflict; patrimonialism andconflict; relationships between climate change, governance, and conflict; disaggregatedstudies on civil war; environmental degradation and non-state conflict; and strategicinteraction in armed conflict. The focus is not only on intra-state armed conflicts, but also onnon-state conflicts and one-sided violence. Research on (2) addresses the core elements ofconflict resolution processes, including negotiation and mediation. Ongoing projects containwork on the mediators themselves (personalities, particular conflicts); third-partyinterventions, peacekeeping and peacebuilding; justice, negotiations and peace agreements;mobilization for peace; violence and spoilers during peace processes; durable resolution of2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>communal conflict; challenges to effectiveness in bilateral and multilateral negotiations; andcivil-military relations. Research relating to (3) is wide-ranging, and investigates the subjectfrom many angles. Ongoing research includes projects on the quality of peace; remobilizationof ex-combatants; post-war democratization; sustainable post-conflict state building: theprovisions of negotiated agreements and sustainable peace; reconciliation and war-relatedtrauma; transnational <strong>aspects</strong> on post-war reconciliation; securitization of threats; and climatechange and conflict prevention. A particular concern is the role of international organizations(UN, EU, AU) and the possibilities of regional peace.The Department retains a firm interest and competitive edge in these three core areas ofresearch. Furthermore, recent developments highlight interconnections between the differentthemes and phases of conflict, with matters of human security and the uses of sanctions beingclear examples of cross-cutting issues. The relevance of challenges integrating differentphases of conflict is notable in several of the research programs that have been launched (e.g.the Programme on Governance, Conflict and Peacebuilding) and the abovementioned UCDP,which currently gathers information pertaining to all phases of conflict, including preventivemeasures.Researchers at the Department are involved in the elaboration of these themescontributing their expertise in particular regions, problems and/or methodologies. A strongbasis in academia makes the Department’s research highly political relevant. The Departmentis seen a credible source of information, commentary and policy formulation in specificareas. This is made possible by maintaining expertise in the three core areas which serve asguidelines for the Department’s development of research, teaching and outreach activities; byfinding ways of integrating the themes, the Department will enhance its standing and meetthe two objectives of academic excellence and policy relevance.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.Most of the Department’s research is externally funded. It is a mark of its quality, but also asource of vulnerability. More core faculty funding would ensure the recruitment of talentedyoung researchers to post-doc positions which would enable the Department to maintainexpertise within its three themes. A chair in international peacebuilding is a priority in theUniversity’s search for large-scale donations. These are measures that would help to maintaina vigorous research milieu for the future.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.The Department is today a middle-sized department. A major explanation for the vitalityand success of its research environment, and its vigorous growth, is its autonomy and itsfocus on a set of core issues. Any major organizational changes affecting such keyfeatures run the risk of seriously hampering future possibilities. Thus, it is crucial for theDepartment to remain an autonomous unit within the Social Science Faculty.In-house researchers come from several disciplines, the peace-and-conflict fieldbeing in itself interdisciplinary. A key aspect of the Department’s research is itsnumerous and wide-ranging collaboration with world-leading scholars and institutionswithin and outside Sweden and Scandinavia.Several of these cooperative arrangements are also truly interdisciplinary.Researchers of the Department report 67 collaborating institutions with joint publicationsin the 2005-10 period. One example within the university is the Uppsala Forum on Peace,2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>Democracy and Justice, which includes Peace and Conflict Research, Political Science,Law, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Genocide Studies. The cross-disciplinaryinternational programmes on East Asian Peace and Improving the Effectiveness ofMultilateral Trade Negotiations are coordinated from the Department and involvepolitical scientists, historians, economists, geographers, legal scholars, and internationalrelations experts, as well as practitioners. The programmes receive major funding fromRiksbankens Jubileumsfond and Handelsbanken, respectively. Another example ofinterdisciplinary collaboration with national and leading international academicinstitutions is the EU-funded Just and Durable Peace by Piece. In collaboration withUppsala Center for Sustainable Development, projects on Climate Change and WaterConflicts are undertaken in partnership with various research institutes, and Sida-fundedresearch on Precarious Peacebuilding is carried out in collaboration with politicalscientists, development scholars and anthropologists from other universities. TheDepartment is also active in several research networks, for instance, the SwedishNetwork of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, which since 2005 has receivedSida funding.A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.The Department is widely recognized internationally as being at the forefront of producingnew knowledge in peace and conflict research. Its competitive edge and attractiveness as aresearch partner, nationally and internationally, rest on at least five pillars. First, theDepartment's researchers combine theoretical knowledge with detailed, empirical caseexpertise from around the world. Second, it has excellent methodological expertise in bothquantitative and qualitative approaches which are increasingly used in combination so as tocomplement each other. Third, the Department has its own unique database with the UppsalaConflict Data Programme, widely used by researchers, policymakers and journalists fromaround the world. Fourth, it covers comprehensively a wide range of core issues in the field,from causes of war to conditions for sustainable peace. Fifth, the internationalization level ishigh and includes partnerships and collaboration with renowned researchers and institutionsaround the world.On this basis three successful research areas have crystallized (see A1). All have attained highlevels of international publication in leading outlets, have attracted external funding and haveproduced strong doctoral dissertations in recent years.First, in the area of causes and dynamics of conflict, successful research encompassestopics such as: one-sided violence against civilians; electoral violence and rebel strategies(including intra-ethnic violence) in civil wars; the effect of external economic andenvironmental factors on the risk of civil conflict; causes and mechanisms behind ethnicmobilization and the spreading of ethnic conflict; and governance, corruption and civil war.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>This work, as well as work on the other areas, connects to other research in the Department onthe broadened security agenda; notably how states interact and cope with threats such asterrorism, migration, pandemics, and global climate change.Second, in the area of peace and negotiation processes, new original work has beenproduced on a number of topics. These include third-party intervention, including the role ofbiased mediators in civil wars and mediation styles; justice and other factors impacting uponeffectiveness in international negotiations (bilateral and multilateral) in different issue areas;and the role of factors such as diaspora populations, violence and mistrust specifically inpeace negotiations.Third, in the area of the requirements and conditions for sustainable peace, research inthe Department has identified and investigated a number of critical factors which, after thetermination of armed conflict, threaten the durability of peace. High quality publications inthis area address issues such as security dilemmas, democratization processes includingelectoral violence and power sharing, the role of governance and state delivery capacity, andsustainable development in post conflict state building, including challenges to reconciliation.Increasingly, research cutting across and integrating these three areas has generated neworiginal insights. Among them are published findings about rebel mobilization for warfare andpeace negotiations, about the role of justice in civil war negotiations and in durable peace, andthe impact of climate change on resource governance strategies and post-conflict statebuilding. The Department has several programs and a number of projects which successfullyintegrate two of or all these three themes.Reflective of the cross-cutting frontline research carried out at the Department is a newmethodology book for peace researchers – Understanding Peace Research: Methods andChallenges (London: Routledge, 2011) – to which many departmental researchers havecontributed. The book focuses on information-gathering methodology ranging from in-depthinterviews, surveys and comparative field work to the production of large scale data bases.Encompassing both qualitative and quantitative methods, and building on vast experience, thefindings of the book suggests ways to overcome challenges in the research of peace andconflict.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.National institutions* The Peace and Development section within the School of Global Studies at GothenburgUniversity is the most suitable national institution for benchmarking. This section is built ontwo disciplinary traditions, one being Peace Research in line with the Department of Peaceand Conflict Research at Uppsala University and the other Development Research, focusingon topics such as poverty, structural inequalities and reasons for underdevelopment.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>International institutions* Peace Studies Research at the School of Social and International Studies, University ofBradford, U.K. Peace Studies Research at the University of Bradford is one of the largest andoldest centers of peace and conflict research in the world. However, the Bradford Center doesmore of applied peace research and principally contributes to policy and practice areas.* Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA. Research atGeorge Mason University is fairly similar to the Department in covering a broad range oftopics within the realm of peace and conflict studies, and peacemaking in particular.* Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA. KrocInstitute conducts mostly inter-disciplinary peace research, also involving theology, sociologyand psychology in addition to the social and political sciences. Kroc has currently recruitednew faculty and is also building up its research education program.* The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway is an independent research institute witha competitive edge particularly in terms of research on conflict causes and dynamics (theme1). However, PRIO differs from the Department in being a research institute, lacking ateaching program and teaching obligations.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.i)Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspective of5-10 yearsThe Department will continue to focus its research on the three thematic areas mentioned underA1 and A2 as they constitute the core of peace research where the Department’s comparativeadvantage lies. Behind the continued production of cutting-edge research is also the productionof novel data, and the further development of theory and research methods.Broadly speaking, we identify three trends pointing towards promising future researchdirections. One is the conceptual and empirical disaggregation of conflict and peace processesdown to the micro-level, a trend that is apparent in both qualitative and quantitative researchand has led to an interesting convergence of research interests and data gathering, spurringmethodological and conceptual development as well as new collaborations. A second, related,trend is the opening up of ‘black boxes’ of hitherto unexplored phenomena during armedconflict, negotiation processes, and peace building efforts. A third trend is the expansion ofresearch beyond traditional intra- and interstate armed conflict to the study of other forms ofpolitical violence, such as, one-sided-, intra-ethnic-, communal- and electoral violence, staterepression, and coups d’état.Under the causes and dynamics of conflict theme, promising research will continue toinvestigate foreign aid and conflict; government repression, human rights abuse and politicalviolence; climate change, environmental stress and communal conflict; diaspora politics,2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>remittances and conflict; and corruption and conflict. New data will allow us to revisit someclassic themes like economic inequality, lootable resources, and natural resource dependence.A new research program, Strategy in contemporary conflict, will provide a framework forvarious research projects aiming to open the black box of war, and work on the microfoundationsof civil war. Future research in this program will look at the dynamics of armedconflict, such as the logic of escalation and de-escalation; the use, creation, and utility ofmilitary force; conflict contagion and diffusion; and the strategic use of violence againstcivilians in conflicts.Second, with regard to peace processes a number of paths need to be followed. Oneconcerns the micro-foundations of peace and the need for continued conceptual and empiricaldisaggregation of peace- and negotiation processes and types of conflict endings. In thisregard, further knowledge needs to be developed about the role of procedural and distributivejustice in negotiation processes. Important work on different types of mediators, mediationprocesses and spoiler dynamics also needs to continue. A third path concerns causes andconsequences of different types of peace agreements, including the relevance of timing,inclusiveness, agreement provisions etc. We also expect work on how to make more complex,multilateral, negotiation processes more effective to continue. A fourth path concerns violenceagainst third parties in peace processes, notably against peace-keepers. Future research underthe peace process theme will thus be conducted under various programs and projects.Third, research on sustainable peace, will continue investigations of peace anddemocratization processes, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, traumaand reconciliation, development aid and peace building. A major new research program islaunched under this theme with expected cross cutting linkages, East Asian Peace. It seeks toexplain how and why East Asia in the period after 1980 became relatively peaceful. Theprogram has the potential to build up a whole field of research and will explore factors andprocesses from different theoretical perspectives, focussing on violent as well as non-violentconflicts, peace processes, conflict avoidance, state repression, and governance.Another cross-cutting research program, Governance, Conflict and Peace Building,focusses on the interplay between governance and resource factors in the etiology of conflictand peace. New research within this framework will be looking at electoral violence,transitions to democracy, the effects of economic shocks on political stability in patrimonialstates, and the conditions for stable peace in Africa.Feeding into all three themes is the output of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program(UCDP), which will remain a core component of future research. The UCDP has taken aglobal lead in generating fine-grained high quality data with international researchers liningup to access and coordinate data, which opens up possibilities for expanded internationalcollaboration. Information-gathering methodology is another area where the Departmentexpects to continue to innovate, and the UCDP is developing cutting edge data managementtools and international coding standards for geo-referenced data that are being widely adoptedeven outside the peace research community (e.g. by the World Bank and AidData.org).ii) How the accomplishment of successful pursuit of these research directions would beattained, and what indicators would be relevantThe two most important conditions for success are research funding and researchers of highinternational quality. This needs to be combined with a well-functioning researchenvironment and international collaboration. Relevant indicators are: (a) the ability to secure2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>funding and (b) the ability to attract the best researchers, (c) the quality of the researchenvironment, and (d) the extent and quality of international collaboration.(a) Basic funding for the UCDP is secured, guaranteeing its continued operation andannual updates of existing data. For all other research and for the development of any newdata we need to attract external funding. This constitutes a vulnerability and more internalfunding is needed to secure core competences and attract the best young researchers.(b) The Department expects the research staff to continue to expand in the near future.The PhD program has been very successful in producing a steady stream of talented youngresearchers of high international class. The Department is recruiting 2-4 faculty on tenuretrack this year, and need to recruit at least 4-6 more in the next five years. So far there havebeen no problems attracting high quality applicants nationally and internationally, butrecruitment is contingent on continued external funding. In addition the East Asia Programand other new research programs are bringing leading national and international scholars tothe Department on longer term contracts.(c) The Department has a collaborative research environment and a vibrant researchseminar. Based on the Department’s Research Strategy we work actively with improvingefficiency and performance in research, e.g. by encouraging collaborative work in researchgroups and programs, mentoring young researchers and structuring other activities at theDepartment. The Department’s main concern following recent expansions is a shortage ofoffice space. With continued expansion there may also be a need to strengthen theadministrative support staff.(d) The Department has strong, expanding and well established networks ofcollaboration around the globe. Numerous international scholars visit the department eachyear and joint publications are common, and Department researchers are frequent visitors atinternational conferences and workshops. Field-work in conflict countries is commonplace,and there is an active exchange of guest researchers for longer periods of time. Severalresearchers at the Department are also on the editorial boards of leading journals.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Wallensteen, Peter (2007) Understanding Conflict Resolution. London: Sage Publications.Albin, Cecilia (2001) Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.Swain, Ashok (2004) Managing Water Conflict: Asia, Africa and the Middle East. London &New York: RoutledgeSvensson, Isak (2007) “Bargaining, Bias and Peace Brokers: How Rebels Commit to Peace”Journal of Peace Research. 44(2): 177-194.Eck, Kristine, and Lisa Hultman (2007) “One-Sided Violence against Civilians: Insights fromNew Fatality Data” Journal of Peace Research 44:233-46.Jarstad, Anna and Timothy Sisk, eds. (2008) From War to Democracy: Dilemmas ofPeacebuilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Höglund, Kristine and Magnus Öberg, eds. (2011). Understanding Peace Research: Methodsand Challenges. London: Routledge.Brounéus, Karen. (2010) “The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in theRwandan Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health”. Journal of Conflict Resolution 54(3):408-437.Fjelde, Hanne (2009) “Buying Peace? Oil, Corruption and Civil War 1984-1999” Journal ofPeace Research 46(2): 199-218.A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Clarification: All publications should be registered in DiVA by Mar 1, 2011, to be available to the externalexperts and for the separate bibliometric analysis. In the case that a researcher has moved to Uppsala Universitywithin the last years, there could be vital publications contributing to the research but not registered in DiVA.A list of these publications from 2007-2010 could be added here (optional). This additional list will also beavailable to the external experts, and to the bibliometric analysis.Albin Cecilia and Daniel Druckman, (Forthcoming). “Equality matters: Negotiating an end to civil wars”, Journal ofConflict Resolution.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>Albin, Cecilia and Daniel Druckman (Forthcoming). “The Role of Equality in Negotiation and Sustainable Peace.” InPsychological Components of a Sustainable Peace, edited by Coleman, P. and M. Deutsch. Springer.Albin, Cecilia (Forthcoming). “Explaining failed negotiations: <strong>Strategic</strong> interaction” in Unfinished Business: SavingInternational Negotiations from Failure, edited by G. O Faure and Franz Cede.Albin, Cecilia and Andreas Jarblad (Forthcoming). “Peacemaking is about Relationships: The Sustained DialogueApproach”. In Peacemakers: Ideas and Dilemmas, edited by M. Fixdal, H. Pharo and J. Winter.Brounéus, Karen (2011) “In-depth Interviewing: The process, skill and ethics of interviewing in peace research”In Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges, edited by Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg.London: Routledge.Eck, Kristine (2011) “Survey Research in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies” In Understanding PeaceResearch: Methods and Challenges, edited by Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg. London: Routledge.Egnell, Robert and David Ucko (2011). Rethinking British Counterinsurgency, London: Adelphi books, Routledge.Egnell, Robert (Forthcoming 2011). “Lessons from Helmand, Afghanistan: What now for British Counterinsurgency?”International Affairs, 87:2.Höglund, Kristine, and Camilla Orjuela (2011). “Winning the Peace: Conflict Prevention after a Victor’s Peacein Sri Lanka.” Contemporary Social Science 6(1): 19-37.Höglund, Kristine, and Isak Svensson (2011). “Fallacies of the Peace Ownership Approach: ExploringNorwegian Mediation in Sri Lanka.” In Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in SriLanka, edited by Kristian Stokke and Jayadeva Uyangoda. London: Anthem Press.Höglund, Kristine, and Isak Svensson (2011). “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Norwegian Mediation in Sri Lankaand the Termination Tactic.” Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, no. 1: 12-32.Höglund, Kristine (2011). “Comparative Field Research in War-Torn Societies.” In Understanding PeaceResearch: Methods and Challenges, edited by Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg. London: Routledge.Höglund, Kristine (Forthcoming 2011). “Obstacles to Monitoring: Perceptions of the Sri Lanka MonitoringMission (SLMM) and the Dual Role of Norway”, International Peacekeeping.Höglund, Kristine (Forthcoming 2011). “Tactics in Negotiations between States and Extremists.” In EngagingExtremists: Trade-Offs, Timing and Diplomacy, edited by I. William Zartman and Guy Oliver Faure.Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press.Höglund, Kristine (Forthcoming 2011). “Violence in the South African Peace Process: An Impetus for Change?”In From Intra-State War to Durable Peace: Conflict and its Resolution in Africa after the Cold War, edited byThomas Ohlson. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishers.Höglund, Kristine and Magnus Öberg, eds. (2011). Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges,London: Routledge.Lilja, Jannie (Forthcoming 2011). “Outbidding and the Decision to Negotiate” in External Intervention inInternal Identity Conflicts, eds. Mark Anstey and I. William Zartman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Lilja, Jannie and Lisa Hultman (Forthcoming 2011). “Intra-Ethnic Dominance and Control: Violence against Co-Ethnics in the Early Sri Lankan Civil War” Security Studies.Melander, Erik and Elin Bjarnegård (2011). “Disentangling Democratization, Gender, and Peace: The Role ofMilitarized Masculinity”. Journal of Gender Studies 20.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>Sundberg, Ralph and Lotta Harbom (2011) “Systematic Data Collection: Experiences from the Uppsala ConflictData Program” In Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges, edited by Kristine Höglund andMagnus Öberg. London: Routledge.Swain, Ashok (Forthcoming 2011). “Challenges for Water Sharing in the Nile Basin: Changing Geo-Politics andChanging Climate”, Hydrological Science Journal.Swain, Ashok, (Forthcoming 2011). “Global Climate Change and Challenges for International RiverAgreements”, International Journal on Sustainable Society.Swain, Ashok, Ramses Amer & Joakim Öjendal, eds. (Forthcoming 2011). The Security-Development Nexus:Peace, Conflict and Development (London: Anthem Press).Swain, Ashok & Florian Krampe. (Forthcoming 2011). “Stability And Sustainability In Peace Building SystemsAnd Warfare Ecology” in Machils, Gary, ed. Warfare Ecology: Synthesis, Priorities and Policy Implications forPeace and Security (NATO Science for Peace and Security, Springer).Swain, Ashok (Forthcoming 2011). “South Asia, its Environment and Regional Institutions”, in L. Elliott & S.Breslin, eds. Comparative Environmental Regionalism (Routledge).Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi (Forthcoming 2011). “From Rebel Groups to Political <strong>Part</strong>ies: Renamo inMozambique and RUF in Sierra Leone,” in From Intra-State War to Durable Peace: Conflict and its Resolutionin Africa after the Cold War, edited by Thomas Ohlson. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishing.Ångström Jan (Forthcoming 2011). “Evaluating Rivalling Interpretations of Asymmetric War and Warfare”, inConceptualising Modern War: A Critical Inquiry, edited by Karl Erik Haug and Ole Jörgen Maao. London/NewYork: Columbia University Press.Ångström Jan (Forthcoming 2011). “Mapping the Competing Analogies of the War on Terrorism”, InternationalRelations.Wallensteen, Peter (Forthcoming). Peace Research: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.Wallensteen, Peter. (Forthcoming 2011). Understanding Conflict Resolution, 3rd edition. London: Sage.Wallensteen, Peter (Forthcoming 2011). “Sanctions in Africa: International Resolve and Prevention of ConflictEscalation” in From Intra-State War to Durable Peace. Conflict and its Resolution in Africa after the Cold War,edited by Thomas Ohlson. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishing: 121-144.Kjellen, Bo and Peter Wallensteen (Forthcoming 2011). “Climate change, Peacekeeping and Perspectives forUN reform”, for Climate Change, Social Stress and Violent Conflict. State of the Art and Research Needs.International Conference, Hamburg University, Nov 19-20, 2009, proceedings.Wallensteen, Peter, Erik Melander and Frida Möller (Forthcoming 2011). “Preventing Genocide: TheInternational Response” For Mark Anstey, Paul Meerts and I. William Zartman (eds) Reducing Identity Conflictsand Preventing Genocide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Wallensteen, Peter (Forthcoming 2011). “What’s in a War? Insights from a Conflict Data Program” in The Lawof Armed Conflict, edited by Mary Ellen O’Connell.Wallensteen, Peter 2011 (Forthcoming 2011). “The Origins of Contemporary Peace Research” in UnderstandingPeace Research, edited by Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg. London/New York: Routledge: 14-32.Wallensteen, Peter, Erik Melander and Stina Högbladh (Forthcoming 2011). “Peace agreements, justice anddurable peace” in The Study of Just and Durable Peace, edited by Karin Aggestam and Annika Björkdahl.Öberg, Magnus and Margareta Sollenberg (2011) “Gathering Information Using News Resources” InUnderstanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges, edited by Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg.London: Routledge.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.i) The department’s situation and actions with respect to decisions taken onuniversity or faculty level, as well as other effects of KoF07The Department received, overall, very positive evaluations in the KoF 2007 report. Forexample, the most comprehensive research program of the Department, the Uppsala ConflictData Program (UCDP), was pointed out as a “flagship” for the university. Positiveassessments like these contributed to the fact that Peace and Conflict Research became one ofthe university’s so-called profile areas of research. Another indirect consequence of KoF 2007was the Swedish Government’s recommendation that the UCDP should get secure funding,which resulted in an allocation of resources, 3 million SEK, per year in direct funding fromthe university to the program. A third consequence of KoF 2007 was the report’s criticalassessment of a lack of more stable funding for post docs, which led to the establishment of anumber of post doctoral positions at the university (so-called KoF-lektorat). The Departmentreceived one of these. The holder of the position, Kristine Höglund, has since 2007contributed to the Department’s research environment in many respects, such as publishingone monograph and numerous articles. Höglund is also the co-editor of the above mentionedbook on methods in peace research and has supervised a handful PhD-students. In short,Höglund is one of the most successful recruitments the Department has done since 2007.ii)The department’s situation and actions with respect to the department’s owndecisionsThe Department has, in accordance with the recommendations in KoF 2007, invested “in thedevelopment of a coherent and intellectually challenging agenda.” By initiating several newresearch programs, of which East Asian Peace and Governance, Conflict and Peace Buildingare the largest, the Department has strived to have an agenda of research that is both coherentand diversified from an empirical, theoretical, and methodological point of view.The Department has been able to constantly improve its quality of research, consistentwith its own research strategy (published on the Department’s web site). Steps to attain thishave consisted, for example, of having a regular research seminar that is very publication2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>oriented. Moreover, researchers and PhD candidates have been encouraged to co-authoracademic papers and to cooperate within projects and research groups, which has yielded asteady increase of publication output. The Department of Peace and Conflict Research iscurrently the best published department per capita at the Faculty of Social Science in terms ofpeer-reviewed articles and books.The Department has been able to make these achievements in spite of limited corefunding. Although much externally funded research is an indication of academic success,externally funded projects are rarely longer than three years at a time, meaning fairly insecurecareers for the promising young researchers on whom the future success of the Departmentdepends.In conclusion, the Department is vulnerable concerning its future ability to maintainexcellence in all three areas of research. In particular, limited core funding from the SocialScience Faculty has resulted in a continued problem with recruiting and retaining excellentyoung researchers on a tenure track basis.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsCecilia Albin, 45, female (Course Convenor), with Jonathan Hall, 28, male (CourseAssistant), and Kristine Höglund, 33, female, and Niklas Swanström, 37, male (Lecturers).2007. Prize in international competition for innovative course syllabi for the Master'scourse “International Negotiation: Theories and Practices,” later published in T.A.McElwee et al. eds., Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 7thEdition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2009).Robert Egnell, 33, 2008, the Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize, American PoliticalScience Association for best doctoral dissertation in the field of international security andarms control. The dissertation, Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations:Winning the Peace was later published (London: Routledge, 2009).Robert Egnell, 35, 2010, the Hugo Raab Prize for Best Research, Swedish NationalDefense College.Jan Ångström, 39, 2009, Prize as Best Teacher, Swedish National Defense College.Peter Wallensteen, 63, 2008, Award for Service in the National Board for Museums ofDefense History. (Statens försvarshistoriska muséer).A9. Additional sources of informationClarification: In order for the external experts to get a complete and correct picture of the department, please listadditional sources of information, such as website addresses for the department and research/research groups (ifapplicable). If information is only available in Swedish, clearly state this after the address in question.www.pcr.uu.sewww.ucdp.uu.sewww.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/www.pcr.uu.se/research/pgcpwww.pcr.uu.se/research/ongoing_projects/effect_of_war_related_trauma_on_attitudes_for_peace2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 34 4Invited talks at international conferences 241 22Assignment in research councils and foundations 14 7Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 16 6positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 17 10Member of international scientific councils 15 8Member of academies and learned societies 25 10Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Hosting of major conferences, for example the European Peace ScienceConferenceRefereeing book manuscripts and articles in top class journals, for example,Cambridge University Press, American Journal of Political Science, WorldPolitics etc.Hosting of major workshops and seminars152 17Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 2Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 13Number of granted external funds for new projects61- In 2007-2010 the Department was granted 66,345,516 SEK in externalfunds.Other, specify:- The Department has hosted about 30 guest researchers in the 2007-2010period.302011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong>B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 4Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 6Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 67Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific 15expeditions, field work etc.):- Field work in: Aceh, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Burundi, Colombia, DemocraticRepublic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Israel, Mozambique, Nepal,Nigeria, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Sudan.- Collaboration with the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution ofDisputes (ACCORD), South Africa.B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 3Popular science papers/books 9Textbooks 5Spin-off commercial companies 3Governmental/societal assignments55- E.g. European Union- and Swedish Parliament HearingsOther activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents, > 100popular science presentations etc.):- Popular science presentations at international and national fairs etc.- Newspaper articles- Expert commentary in TV and radio2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 16<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (see general comments in part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: Department of Business StudiesA1 i.IntroductionThe discipline of Företagsekonomi exists in several European countries, but has taken onsomewhat different features in each country. In Sweden the discipline is broad, covering thestudy of all kinds of formal organizations and almost any aspect of these entities. At theDepartment of Business Studies at Uppsala University a special focus is placed on issues ofgovernance of large organizations, the use of accounting information, industrial marketing,corporate entrepreneurship and the embeddedness of organizations in broader societalinstitutions. Research at the Department has a long tradition of dealing withinternationalization, international business and transnational organizations and institutions.The research is organized into five sectors, each dealing with a specific area. Each sector isled by a chaired professor and provides a forum for discussing and developing research.Although most scholars are enlisted in one sector only, there is a high level of interaction andcollaboration among scholars having their main basis in different sectors. In this way,researchers can relate their specific interest to a broader spectrum of ongoing research onorganizations.International BusinessThe international business research embraces several areas, which include a number of subtopics.One traditional area concerns the internationalization process of the firm (Johansonand Vahlne, 1977). This model points to the gradual character of internationalization and thevital role played by experience about foreign markets and psychic distance between countries.Our research in this area has resulted in some widely cited articles and, lately, the “market–asbusiness-networkapproach” has come to play a major role in the development of thisresearch. We are currently investigating some of the basic assumptions of this model, and wehave also initiated studies on the continuing internationalization process of the multinationalcorporation (MNC). The purpose of the latter is to shed light on how dispersed experience andresources, within the corporation, are utilized and coordinated in the creation of new businessand market entry. This has not been done extensively in existing research. Moreover, an ongoingtopic concerns how internationalization emerges through opportunity-seeking. In thisaspect, we have adopted a more pro-active role of the firm, rather than the risk-avoiding viewthat was prevalent in earlier research.Another area of research focuses on management of the MNC. In this area, we particularlystudy the emergence of subsidiary centres of excellence, innovation and knowledge transfer.We also study the MNC as a political organization and investigate sources of subsidiaryinfluence, the tension between subsidiary roles in the local business context and the corporatecontext, and the related struggle for control. The projects embracing this research haveutilized and developed the concept of embeddedness of the MNC (Forsgren et al, 2005). It hasalso stimulated us to initiate research on the role of headquarters in the MNC. This is a highlyrelevant issue, given the complexity that is usually ascribed to the contemporary MNC.Another growing theme of the group concerns the cross-cultural impact on management inMNCs. In this area we function as a node for an international network of researchers. Finally,through our tradition of addressing the interplay between the MNC and its businessenvironment, we study how the MNC affects host-country economies through knowledge2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>spill-over. This is a timely theme, which utilizes interdisciplinary competences betweenbusiness studies and the field of economic geography. An emerging collaboration withinternational scholars has been initiated.The primary mission of our international business research has been to develop a school ofconsistent thought that can be employed in various areas of study. On this basis our goal is torenew ourselves by addressing contemporary topics and generating new ideas that influenceour current view on internationalization and management. The research has often challengedthe “main stream” and traditional ideas in the field, and resulted in what academics usuallyrefer to as the “Uppsala School”.MarketingThe research in marketing is fundamentally grounded in research conducted from the 1960sonwards. Empirical studies in the 1960-70s of the internationalization of Swedish companiespointed to long-term relationships between the investigated companies and their customers. Aconsequence of this observation was the emergence of a strong stream of research directedtowards business-to-business relationships. Scholars were highly involved in the developmentof the internationally well-known IMP approach to business-to-business relationships. Thisaddresses the interaction between business firms and networks of business relationships, andchallenged the received marketing theory in attempts to develop new ways to understandbusiness relationships. It is today accepted as one of the dominant theories on marketing andpurchasing in industrial markets. The theoretical foundation, which was primarily constructedon business-to-business relationships, became broader and incorporated a business networkapproach.In recent years, business relationships and networks have dominated marketing research.While the initial thoughts of these theoretically were employed for studying industrialcompanies, new research thoughts emerged to incorporate other types of actors. Several newgroups were recruited to cover the wide range of marketing research, which is to cover thebehaviours of companies and individuals from MNCs to consumers. The businessrelationships and network approaches have been increasingly applied as a starting point tostudy different <strong>aspects</strong> of company behaviour both in local and international contexts as wellas business-to-business and business-to-consumer settings. For each of the above filedresearches, there appeared new research groups working together. The network perspectivehas also been expanded to include relationships with important non-business counterparts,such as political and social actors. The latter, for example, comprises research groupsstudying the behaviour of both MNCs and also small companies in an international context.For example, consumer marketing researchers focus on the issue of consumers as valuecreatorin business networks.Our research in marketing covers studies concerning international, industrial, consumer andservice marketing. Aspects investigated include, for example, commitment, interdependence,knowledge and trust in business relationships. Other examples are economical andtechnological consequences of network embeddedness. Several research methods, includingcase studies and surveys, have been employed. Furthermore, international cooperation withresearchers from other universities in Europe and Asia is an important part of the tradition.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>Management and OrganizationResearch in management and organization is grounded in empirical studies of organizationsof various kinds and guided by the overall mission to be innovative, relevant andmethodologically creative. A common denominator is an interest in the strong tendency fororganizational and market building processes that we see throughout society at both nationaland global levels. These processes involve an emphasis on clearer organizational boundaries,strong identities, results and effectiveness as overarching values, and the construction andmaintenance of the organization’s identity, brand, reputation and legitimacy.Current research in management and organization can be summarized in four themes. Thefirst concerns the development and change of transnational governance practices. Hereresearchers are interested in the development, organizing and effects of new forms ofregulations and governance principles. These principles are largely voluntary and informaland developed in transnational networks among a large set of actors. Studies have, forinstance, focused on the role and development of standards and codes of conduct, rankingsand certification/accreditation systems. Secondly, the governance and management of globalcorporations has been a common interest for several researchers. Studies have focused on howcorporations have increasingly become embedded in, and dependent on, relationships withactors that function as intermediaries in the relation with customers, suppliers, governmentsand other interested parties. These include, most significantly, media and PR organisationsand professionals. A related and third topic is the growing importance of creating, maintainingand upholding reputation and legitimacy that corporations and other organizations are facing.This relates not only to the growing importance of the media, but also to the development ofpractices and procedures concerning CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). A fourth themeis the transformation of the public sector, where researchers have focused on the developmentof programs and technologies for creating transparency, accountability and quality inorganizations such as hospitals, schools and universities. One particular focus has been theimplications for professional development in healthcare, and the organizing and governanceof higher education systems.AccountingEver since the early days, our research interest in accounting has been oriented towards thedesign, production and use of accounting information. In accordance with a longstandingScandinavian tradition, our research generally has a strong empirical orientation. The researchsettings are both profit- and non-profit-oriented companies and institutions. Our aim is togenerate rigorous and relevant research. In practice, this orientation has often resulted in apreference for case studies and qualitative methods.There is an open mind towards a wide range of theoretical approaches. The research has beengrounded in the fields of economics, sociology and psychology. Lately, a number of researchprojects have been informed by inter-organizational theory (especially network theory),structuration theory and actor-network theory.In the area of management accounting and control, we have been interested in topics such asbudgeting and budget evaluation, performance management, new management accountingmethods and inter-organizational management accounting. Our contemporary research agendaconsists of several themes such as the relationship between corporate governance andmanagement control, the relationship between strategies and management control in complexorganizations, the consequences of IT on a changing management control practice, the effect2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>of emotion and cognition on people’s gathering and processing of information, and finally theeffect of management control on the development of stress.In the area of financial accounting, the use of accounting information for valuation, decisionand control has been a central theme for our research. The analytical setting for these studieshas been both inside the individual company and in the capital market. A special interest is themeasurement and valuation of intangibles. Today internal control and auditing are importantresearch areas in a number of ongoing projects, as well as studies of the transmission and thereception of accounting numbers. We are also interested in how financial information affectssociety at large – the so-called “financialization of every-day life”.In the area of managerial finance, the research interest has mostly focused on topics related tomanagement-oriented corporate finance. Questions evolving around investments and financein a national and international context have been of longstanding interest. This is exemplifiedalready in the early work of our Department’s first professor, Sune Carlson, in his bookInternational Financial Decisions (1969). One example of contemporary research is ourinterest in the merger and acquisition field. We believe that a stakeholder perspective canincrease our understanding of the different phases in the merger and acquisition process aswell as the outcome of these processes.EntrepreneurshipResearch on entrepreneurship is guided by the overarching mission to embrace the unexploredand to develop creative and path-breaking approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. In theexpanding and constantly evolving domain of entrepreneurship research, the core researchprograms currently include corporate entrepreneurship and the survival of new ventures insideestablished organizations, innovation processes and the diffusion of technological capabilitiesin the multinational corporation, entrepreneurship on the art and cultural arenas, andopportunity recognition as a subjective and team-based process. Emerging new researchprograms concern the selection of new initiatives on the art and cultural arenas, as well as themoods of regions as determinants of entrepreneurial and innovation activity.In many cases, ongoing work critically explores received views within different fields ofresearch, attempting to open up new perspectives and avenues for future research. Researchmethodologies stretch from purely theoretical work to both qualitative methods (includingautoethnography and longitudinal case studies) and broad-based quantitative studies(including survey-based research and the application of cutting-edge statistical methods). Thecross-disciplinary component is prominent in several publications, including pieces of work inthe intersection of entrepreneurship and the international business and economic geographyliteratures, as well as entrepreneurship and neurosciences and neurophilosophy. At a finerlevel of aggregation, connections are made across the literatures of entrepreneurship,ecological theory, and the theory of the firm.A1 ii.A main obstacle to the quality of the research is the limited time for research given to ouremployees, especially lecturers. One significant obstacle to improvement is the everincreasingadministrative burden, some of which finds its origin in central administration atthe university level. There is also a continuous challenge to secure unswerving and long-termfinancial resources, and generally scarce resources impel faculty to allocate substantial2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>amounts of time and effort to the securing of often fickle external research funding. These areissues that in large part require closer attention and engagement among administrators andofficials at the university level.To secure continuity and critical mass in research, we endeavour to attract skilled researchersand to uphold a set of broad international working relations (including international Post Docrecruitment). Actions for improvement include active recruitment of excellent scholars andcontinuous competence development of existing faculty.A1 iii.Our discipline is closely related to other social science disciplines such as sociology, politicalscience and information science. The Department’s placement within Uppsala University istherefore highly suitable. There are several examples of interdisciplinary projects, such as anewly started collaboration with the department of social medicine on the relation betweenmanagement control systems and stress. Cooperation with economic and natural sciencedepartments at Uppsala University and other universities involves researchers from differentdisciplines. Connecting market and marketing in cooperation with department of Economicshas led to a number of scientific studies in international marketing. A number of marketingresearchers cooperate with STS (Science & Technology Study) centre.We list below a selection of interdisciplinary research schools and research programmes.One major joint venture is the national research Management and IT school that is run incooperation with the department of information, founded in 2000. Further to successive newadditions, membership of the school is currently composed of the Department, seven otherDepartments of Business Studies, and seven Departments of Informatics – from Umeå in thenorth of Sweden to Lund in the south. The school offers students a course program and threeresearch conferences per year. Enrolment today is composed of 60 doctoral students from thevarious partner institutions. So far, the research school has produced 32 PhDs and 11Licentiates (see further www.forskarskolan-mit.nu).Long-term international collaboration prevails with the Nordic Research School inInternational Business (Nord-IB), which consists of major centres of international businessresearch in the Nordic countries and the UK. This network was created in 1999 and thedepartment is responsible for project coordination and administration (http://nordib.fek.uu.se/).To date, about 140 doctoral students from the Nordic, Baltic and otherEuropean countries have successfully completed the program.In 2010, a research and teaching network on multicultural teams was established: LeveragingCulture in Teams – Research and Teaching in Multinational Settings. The Network includesmembers from 13 Universities in Europe and Australia hosted at Uppsala University. Themain purpose is to initiate new research partnerships and exchange pedagogical ideas.Furthermore, the department is also running an annual interdisciplinary public sector seminartogether with the IPF (Institutet för personal & företagsutveckling), UU Innovation and theDivision for Contract Education at Uppsala University at Uppsala University.There are several interdisciplinary research programs. Between Private and Public –Democratic Governance in Healthcare Networks (MOD) (2004-2008) was an2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>interdisciplinary research programme that included researchers in business studies, politicalscience, history, informatics and ethnology (www.fek.uu.se/forskning/projekt/mod). Crossdisciplinarywork is carried out in the intersection of entrepreneurship and artistic and culturalactivities. An international group of researchers contributed to a recently published volumeentitled Art Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar, 2011), and a new research program on theselection of new initiatives on the art and cultural arenas draws together a cross-disciplinarygroup of researchers, covering the fields of entrepreneurship, cultural studies, and genderresearch.Another large interdisciplinary programme under planning has the title Transnational Assetsand Strategies in Swedish Higher Education and Research. The programme includes scholarswithin business studies, education, sociology of education, history, the history of education,economic history, geography, art history, languages and linguistics at Uppsala University.A2 i.The international research exchange of the department is extensive; we regularly receiveshort and long-term visits by foreign researchers for the purpose of collaboration. Since2007 we have published joint papers in collaboration with 36 foreign scholars (see B3).International BusinessOur international business research benefits from a long tradition where the process ofinternationalization and the markets-as-networks perspectives are continuously important.However, we actively develop new ideas where these traditions guide us into new studies.Hence, we continue to conduct research and publish in the area of the internationalizationprocess. Although our new themes in this area are at an emerging stage, such as thecontinuing internationalization of the MNC (see A1 i), we regard them as very promising.Moreover, our work on embeddedness of the MNC, subsidiary innovation and knowledgetransfer has been particularly successful. In connection to this, the role of headquarters is aquickly emerging theme where we already publish regularly. One feature of internationalbusiness research is the close connection between sub-topics, which improves the likelihoodof collaboration between members of the group. We therefore have no doubt that new themesand recently launched projects will benefit from integration between group members (as wellas international collaboration). We wish to stress that development is associated with ourtraditions where we enjoy a well known perspective on internationalization. However, thecontinuous publication rate in international journals has also been dependent on our ability tocreate new research projects and the collection of somewhat “sensitive” data through closecontact with business corporations. Our department was ranked sixth in the world in terms ofpublication rate in international business journals (see International Business Review, 2006)and, more recently, third in Europe (Treviño et al in IBR, 2010). We can currently observe apositive trend where new research agendas are created and our publication rate is increasing.We therefore believe that our research standard in international business and internationalmarketing is equal to world-leading institutions. Internationally, we benchmark against othersuccessful groups such as Tilburg University, the University of Leeds, the CopenhagenBusiness School and the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>MarketingThe ground for successful marketing research has two folds. One is the scholars that coverdifferent marketing fields, and another is the employment of the business relationship andnetwork perspectives in all of the marketing fields. Specifically for the support from externalresearch funds, the marketing sector has been able to recruit an extensive number of newresearchers and introduce and infuse new theoretical views within the context of businessnetwork theory. The marketing research now involves a number of groups collaborating tocover the marketing fields from consumer, industrial and service to the behaviour of MNCsand SMEs. While the consumer group has developed the notion of consumer businessnetworks and consumers as value-creators, the group in the industrial field has put strongemphasis on the dynamic and broken ties of industrial relationships. The group studying thebehaviour of MNCs and SMEs has developed notions on the extension of the businessnetwork boundary to integrate socio-political relationships into the business network context.Within the business relationships field, we have especially contributed to the understanding ofthe emergence of new business relationships in local and international markets, as well asforeign market entry and expansion. Another successful area has dealt with the value andstrengths of relationships, including tensions and the breaking of business relationships.Within business networks new ideas on network dynamics, technological development andinnovation are developed. In this research, the role of non-business actors in businessnetworks has in recent years been emphasized. Focus has been on how MNCs and SMEsaffect and are affected by local and international business and socio-political actors. For thissuccess, collaboration with colleagues from several European and Asian countries has beenvital. Some research themes with deeper consideration include: a) Non-business organizationsand MNCs. This research has external funds over a three-year period involving a groupcomposed of professors/associate professors and several doctoral students; b) TheInternationalization of Multinational Bank Services Group. This project studies theinternationalization process of bank services and the impact of financial crises. The projectalso has external research funds over a three-year period, and involves senior researchers andPhD students. Specific research fields of a number of groups are: a) The effect of mergers andacquisitions on associated business relationships; b) Consumers’ value-creation and networkembeddedness and the impact of IT; c) Business relationship strength and relationshipdeterioration and dissolution; d) The impact of business and non-business actors onrelationship strength and the termination of relationships; f) Termination competence. Theseresearchers are mainly financed by external funds.The significant issue that makes researches in international marketing and industrial, service,and even consumers businesses to have a unique position is that researchers apply businessrelationship and network theories and challenge the existing views.Management and OrganizationSeveral of the studies in management and organization are grounded in the organizationalinstitutionalism literature, and researchers have successfully contributed to this framework.Organizational institutionalism is based on the notion that organizations are related to, anddeeply embedded in, relations and dependencies in the wider social and cultural contexts inwhich they act. Many studies take their starting point in broad societal changes, and depictthings like medialization, globalization, marketization and the quests for transparency asexpressions of such transitions (see for example Pallas & Fredriksson, 2011). Studies largelyaim to understand and investigate the forming, expressions, and consequences of such2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>changes for organizations. Studies have contributed to theories on diffusion of organizationalideas, models and practices across countries, contexts and areas; imitation, translation andediting of ideas and practices (see for example Sahlin & Wedlin 2008); the spread oflegitimacy loss to innocent organizations (Jonsson, Greve and Fujiwara-Greve, 2009) as wellas to barriers and resistance to imitation. The development and forming of organizationalfields, with a particular focus on the role of rankings and accreditations, has been anotherimportant area for studies, as well as studies on higher education and knowledge production(see for instance Whitley, Gläser & Engwall, 2010). Theories on communication and the roleof actors in institutional change, as well as the role of professions and professionaldevelopment in institutional changes, have also been explored and developed (see for exampleLevay & Waks, 2009).In a national perspective, research groups at Score at the Stockholm School of Economics andGRI at the University of Gothenburg constitute particularly relevant benchmarks. Weconsider us to be at least on par with these groups in terms of research activity and quality inour selected areas of expertise. Research groups at the University of Alberta, the CopenhagenBusiness School, and Stein Rokkan Centre at the University of Bergen are also relevant forcomparisons.AccountingIn the field of auditing we have a long and successful cooperation with Stockholm Universityand with leading auditing firms. The recent merger between the Department of CommercialLaw and the Department of Business Studies, together with the recruitment of assistantprofessors with a research interest in this field, further enhances our ability to conductresearch of high quality. Our auditing research covers internal and external auditing and awide range of topics. This includes studies of different actors’ understanding of what auditingis and the perceived value of auditing, as well as studies of audit failures. But also the design,use and effects of internal control – for example how internal control affects the formulationand implementation of strategies. Another research area is the consumption of accounting andauditing. Examples of studies in this area – both ongoing and planned – are the audit tenderprocess, issues of insolvency, reconstruction and bankruptcy, and auditing of intangible assetssuch as social and sustainability accounting. The accounting groups at the Stockholm Schoolof Economics, Stockholm University and Lund University are suitable for comparison. Weconsider us to be at least on par with these research groups.In the broad research area of enterprise information systems the effects of informationtechnology on society, organizations and individual managers and employees are studied.Many of our projects are associated with the MIT research school and focus on some aspectof change. One example is a study of the implementation and use of an enterprise resourceplanning system in which <strong>aspects</strong> of conflicting requirements were investigated. Anotherexample is an ongoing project studying how organizations work with sales. A third example isa case-study of a global finance transformation that explores how global organizations initiate,lead, and sustain large-scale IT-enabled change. A final example is a large study of thechanging role of controllers in Sweden, which discusses how information technology hascontributed to the controller focusing more on business development and analysis rather thaninformation production. The informatics group and economic information systems group atLinköping University are suitable for comparison. We consider us to be at least on par withthese groups.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>EntrepreneurshipOne particularly successful research program concerns processes of technological renewaland the diffusion of technological capabilities within the multinational corporation. Ongoingresearch efforts explore the conditions and processes that explain the emergence of“superstar” foreign subsidiaries, as well as largely neglected longitudinal trends in theemergence and diffusion of new technological capabilities across advanced foreignsubsidiaries of the multinational network.As for the Department as a whole, our ambition is to remain among the very top departmentsof Företagsekonomi in the Nordic countries.A3.IntroductionWe believe that promising future research directions will be found in each of the areas wherethe Department has developed a critical mass of research and special competence. Research atthe Department is governed by five principles that have successfully been applied so far andthat will continue to guide our future work.First, in an era where there is a strong belief that quality can easily be translated into quantity,we strive for true quality in research. Our ambition is to provide genuinely new knowledgethat is of high theoretical and societal relevance. We emphasize innovativeness – we put moreemphasis on the task of bringing new perspectives into various fields of research than onrefining existing perspectives. Although this strategy leads to a reasonable number of highqualitytexts being published in widely distributed media, we are aware that the strategy isprobably not the optimal one should the purpose be to score high on popular quantitativemetrics of research success.Second, we believe in concentration and a long-term perspective. We believe that quality andinnovativeness are fostered by investments in large and long-term research efforts onparticular issues. We organize for long-term teamwork on carefully selected researchproblems.Third, we emphasize the importance of deep and extensive empirical studies as the main basisfor theory development. Such empirical studies tend to be time-consuming but they arecrucial for developing high-quality research.Fourth, we think that it is important to exploit the fact that research in the Department coversa broad range of issues. Although we build on specialized research teams, we endeavour tocontinue keeping the existing high level of interaction and dialogue among these teams. Suchdialogue favours both quality and innovativeness and often leads to new research projectswhere knowledge and competence from various subfields are combined in a fruitful way.Finally, our aim is not only to produce high-quality research but also to develop highlyqualified scholars, whether they remain at our department or complete their careers elsewhere.Such efforts are directed not only at our doctoral students but also at our young faculty. Wewish to recruit excellent scholars who can strongly contribute to our research themes andmissions – excellence per se is not enough.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>Several groups at the Department of Business Studies have recently started exploring theconsequences of fundamental transformations within their respective fields of research. Insome cases, these transformations reflect the stagnation of traditional areas of research and theassociated need for exploration of new and additional paths of research. They also find theirorigins in ongoing and sometimes radical changes in the empirical domain, necessitating there-examination of traditional concepts and assumptions in the established literatures.Typically, breaking new paths in established and mature fields of research is an uncertain andlong-term endeavour. From this perspective, collegial support and the sharing of experiencesfrom attempts to change often ingrained notions provide an important strength in ongoing andfuture research efforts.The aim of our research groups is to continue to conduct research within the successful areasdiscussed in the sections A1-A2. However, over the next 5-10 years we recognize interestingopportunities to initiate research programmes that span across our existing research themes.We discuss below some research issues that would be included in such programmes.Global transformationThe Department has historically made important contributions to our understanding ofprocesses of internationalization and globalization. Such processes are still very much infocus for current research activities. Globalization is a highly dynamic phenomenon thatcomes in ever-new forms. It tends to affect and even transform all kinds of organizations. Toa great extent, globalization is the result of activities of a growing number of MNCs andinternational organizations. Furthermore, transnational activities such as standardization,ranking and accreditation can be described as organizing activities in themselves andfruitfully be analysed with the help of organizational concepts.We also recognize that we know very little about the dynamics caused by theinternationalization of companies originating from countries with rapid industrial expansion,for example India and China. Are these companies internationalizing and conducting theirmarket activities differently as compared to western companies, and are they dealing with thesame obstacles and adopting the same type of solutions as compared to companies that startedtheir international market expansion many decades ago? Moreover, what is the relativeimportance of business with companies in those countries; what roles do they play ininternational financial crises, and the development of daily business? Another area concernsthe areas of management control and corporate governance. Interesting <strong>aspects</strong> are the role ofthe control system and the governance regime, and how these affect the relationship betweenthe headquarters and the subsidiaries, and how companies that originate from rapidlyindustrializing countries are managed and governed as they establish into more advancedeconomies. Another intriguing issue concerns the role of experience in the management ofsuch companies, which has played a main role in traditional research within internationalbusiness literature.While a large part of the world’s domestic economies are in transition from state planning andownership to a more capitalistic market society, similar trends can also be observed in anumber of western countries. Through privatizations or decentralization in sectors such ashealthcare or higher education, new markets emerge for global competition; there is anincreasing interest for practices such as “branding”, “reputation management” and “strategic2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>communication” among healthcare organizations. This development raises fundamentalquestions concerning professional and organizational identities and legitimacy.Globalization also involves global systems of governance, including accounting. An earlier,and dominant, focus on how to adapt accounting to the unique conditions of the organizationas well as national laws and regulations are now challenged. Today global harmonization andthe possibility to make global comparisons of performance are prioritized. Furthermore, thereis a strongly expanding amount of other measures and methods of comparing organizationsintroduced by various interest organizations. Such organizations are themselves a crucial topicfor research as well as their effects on other organizations. The same is true for the role ofsocial entrepreneurs striving for effects on a global level. The role of traditional and newmedia is likely to become even stronger than today, implying new conditions for corporationsas well as other organizations. The development of media may produce new forms oforganizational reactions. It may lead to a continued trend towards even more “edited”organizations, continuously engaging in the collection, production and editing of textualpresentations on their behaviour. Alternatively, this trend may meet reactions that forceorganization to other types of response.There is an excellent basis for a large, long-term, overall departmental research programoriented to the study of global transformation and organization. For implementing such aprogram and for realizing the Department’s general commitment to a long-term perspective,substantial, concentrated and lasting financial resources are necessary. The Department isdependent on support and resources not only from external parties but also from theUniversity, for example in the form of reduced teaching and administration workloads forprofessors and lecturers.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>A4.1. Andersson, U, Forsgren, M, Holm, U., 2007. Balancing subsidiary influence in the federative MNC– a business network perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(5): 802-818.http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?hid=7&sid=16cb959a-0beb-4d4f-90c9-78e05152b70d%40sessionmgr4&vid=3[The article explains how the external business network can be a strong source for subsidiary strategicinfluence inside the contemporary MNC and how headquarters, by acquiring first-hand knowledge throughdirect relationships with the external business partners, can balance subsidiary power.]2. Blomkvist, K., Kappen, P. and Zander, I., 2010, Quo Vadis? The Entry into New Technologies byForeign Subsidiaries of the Multinational Corporation. Journal of International Business Studies, 41 (9):1525-1549.[The paper uses repeated events analysis to investigate longitudinal patterns in advanced foreign subsidiaries’entry into technologies that are new to the entire multinational group. The results lend support for establishedtheorizing about the evolution of technological capabilities in greenfield subsidiaries, but question extreme viewson their growing strategic importance for the MNC.]3. Carrington, Thomas and Gustav Johed, 2007, "The construction of top management as a goodsteward: a study of Swedish annual general meeting", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal,vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 702-728.URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/journals.htm?issn=0951-3574&volume=20&issue=5&PHPSESSID=0u06jjclvps64gb6i4gmrdtcs0[The aim of this paper is to investigate how top management is constructed as a good steward of its company atthe annual general meeting (AGM) and how accounting is used in the course of this process.]4. Ciabuschi, F., Dellestrand, D., Martin Martin, O., 2011. Internal embeddedness, headquartersinvolvement, and innovation importance in multinational enterprises”. Accepted in Journal ofManagement Studies.[The article contributes to an enhanced understanding of how innovation-related subsidiary internalembeddedness and headquarters involvement in innovation development processes help subsidiaries upgradetheir competencies and improve MNE competitive advantage.]5. Czernich, C. and Zander, I., 2011, Survival of the Fitting – Assessing, Extending, and EmpiricallyExploring Penrose’s Theory of the Growth of the Firm. In S. Zahra (Ed.), Handbook of CorporateEntrepreneurship (forthcoming).[This paper revisits the work by Penrose (1959) to assess, extend, and empirically test her classical theory from acorporate entrepreneurship perspective. It concludes that Penrose’s notion of the ‘survival of the fitting’ isessentially correct, but adds that more explicit recognition of selection logics and processes adds a compatibleand reasonable real-life component to her original work.]6. Figueira de Lemos, F, Johanson, J. and J-E. Vahlne, 2010. Risk Management in theInternationalization Process of the Firm: A note on the Uppsala Model, Journal of World Business,46(2), 143-153.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6W5M-50B5WG7-3-1&_cdi=6574&_user=651519&_pii=S1090951610000234&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2011&_sk=999539997&wchp=dGLbVlz-zSkWb&md5=7293048b16de703f761430b9ecf2459f&ie=/sdarticle.pdf2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>[This paper examines the Uppsala model’s risk formulation its two variables: commitment and uncertainty. Themain contribution consits in the composition of a set of hypotheses on the effects of risk contingencies on afirm’s commitment behavior in different internationalization phases]7. Hadjikhani, A. and Thilenius, P. (2009) Industrial relationships and the effects of different types ofconnections, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 38, Number, 6, August/September, pp. 679-687.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V69-4WT39V4-1&_user=651519&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2009&_rdoc=16&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=docinfo(%23toc%235809%232009%23999619993%231399090%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=5809&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=17&_acct=C000035158&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=651519&md5=49e1e4fad7685b00fcdad1704711d981&searchtype=a[The paper presents a study of business relationships connections to different types of actors. It statisticallyexamines how different types of business, competitors, socio-political connections impact on the core business.]8. Hadjikhani, A., Lee, J-W. and Ghauri, P. N. (2008) Network view of MNCs' socio-politicalbehaviour, Journal of Business Research, 61, pp. 912–924.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7S-4R70BSP-1&_user=651519&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2008&_rdoc=5&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=docinfo(%23toc%235850%232008%23999389990%23691721%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=5850&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=17&_acct=C000035158&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=651519&md5=f2d4523f78ee751ec0a4667bae8943b9&searchtype=a[The paper examines the impact of socio-political relationships on MNCs entry and expansion. The two casestudies of Swedish and South-Korean MNCs in Europe are compared.]9. Havila, Virpi and Asta Salmi, 2009, Managing Project Ending, London: Routledge.[The existing studies mainly concern the initiation and development of projects. This book concerns contrary toexisting studies elaborate thoughts on ending and termination of projects and the consequences.]10. Jonsson, S., Greve, H. and Fujiwara-Greve, T., 2009, “Undeserved Loss: the Spread of LegitimacyLoss to Innocent Organizations in Response to Reported Corporate Deviance”, Administrative ScienceQuarterly, 54: 2, pp. 195-228.http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&bquery=(JN+%22Administrative+Science+Quarterly%22+AND+DT+20090601)&type=0&site=ehost-live[This paper formulates and tests an organisation level theory for undeserved loss of reputation. A key mechanismis the rough categorization of organizations commonly applied in society, which leads to generalization of badorganizational behaviour also across undeserving organizations. The theory is tested in the context of theSkandia scandal and the Swedish pension system.]11. Levay, C. and Waks, C., 2009, “Professions and the Pursuit of Transparency: Two Cases of SoftAutonomy”, Organization Studies, 30: 5, pp. 509-527.http://oss.sagepub.com/content/30/5/509.full.pdf+html[This paper analyses two cases in Swedish healthcare where professional groups got actively engaged invisualising professional work. The fallout is characterised as a ‘soft professional autonomy’ – professionalsinternalised auditing ideas but remained in control of crucial evaluation criteria and procedures.]2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong>12. Lindvall, Jan, 2009, Controllerns nya roll: om verksamhetsstyrning i informationsrik miljö.Norstedts akademiska förlag.[This book discusses how the role of the controller is affected by IT. The author argues that the controller shouldfocus more on supporting the businesses rather than be a "traditional" accountant]13. Mattsson, Lars-Gunnar, 2009. Uppsala in the world – The world in Uppsala: Half a century ofresearch at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Acta UniversitatisUpsaliensis. Studia Oeconomiae Negotiorum 44, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.[This book provides an expose of the research activities of the Department of Business Studies at UppsalaUniversity.]13. Nilsson, Fredrik, Nils-Göran Olve and Anders Parment, 2011, Controlling for competitiveness:strategy formulation and implementation through management control. Liber & Copenhagen BusinessSchool Press (in press).[This book discusses the design and use of management control systems and how that affects the behaviour ofmanagers and employees and ultimately competitiveness. The argument is based on the latest literature in areaand interviews in sixteen organizations.]14. Sahlin, K. and Wedlin, L., 2008, “Circulating Ideas: Imitation, Translation and Editing”. InGreenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K. and Suddaby, R. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of OrganizationalInstitutionalism. Sage, pp. 218-242.[This paper reviews the literature on imitation, translation and editing of ideas that has developed primarilywithin the Scandinavian research tradition, and relates these to the main issues and debates in organizationalinstitutionalism. We conclude that this research shows how the circulation of ideas leads to variation andstratification of organizational practices, and can result in both organizational and institutional change.]2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong>A5.1. Ahrne, G. and Brunsson, N. (2011) “Organization outside organizations: The significance of partialorganization”, Organization, 18: 83-104.http://org.sagepub.com/content/18/1/83.full.pdf+html[This paper discusses how partial organization arises, how and why institutions and networks sometimes becomeorganized, and the consequences of organization for change, transparency and accountability.]2. Bengtson A., Hadjikhani, A. Pahlberg, C., (2011), Political Entrepreneurship in New SmallVentures, The Case of IMS; International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 26-43.[Instead of business entrepreneurship, the paper develops new thoughts on political entrepreneurship of smallbusiness firms.]3. Carrington, Thomas, 2010, "An analysis of the demands on a sufficient audit: professionalappearance is what counts!", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 669-682.URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_cdi=6756&_pubType=J&_acct=C000035158&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=651519&md5=d17d0b1d68e97f126f57bb00d3974b65&jchunk=21#21[This article analyzes the demands on a sufficient audit. The material investigated is the disciplinary casespublished by the SSBPA. The image of a sufficient audit that materializes from this investigation is of an auditthat meets the demands of professional appearance.]4. Ciabuschi, F., Forsgren, M. and Martín, O., 2011. Rationality versus ignorance: The role ofMNC headquarters in the subsidiaries’ innovation processes. Accepted in Journal ofInternational Business Studies.[This article contributes to IB research by bringing to the scene an alternative approach to boundedrationality – the sheer ignorance perspective – to explain the behavior of key actors in the MNE. Wecontrast these two perspectives regarding the relationship between HQ’s knowledge about and HQ’sinvolvement in innovation processes at the subsidiary level, and regarding the impact of this potentialinvolvement on innovation processes performance.]5. Drogendijk, R. and Zander, L., 2010. Walking the cultural distance: in search of direction andbeyond friction, Advances in International Management, 23, 189-212.[This article addresses the shortcomings of cultural distance, a concept commonly used in International Business.Cultural profiling and cultural positioning are proposed as alternative ways of conceptualizing andcontextualizing cultural complexity when comparing and contrasting critical cultural differences. Culturaldiversity is viewed as not only leading to friction or problem creation, but also to enrichment and solutiongeneration.]6. Havila, V. & Medlin, C., 2011, Ending Competence in Business Closure, Industrial MarketingManagement. (Forthcoming).[Contrary to other studies on initiation or development of relationship, this paper elaborate new thought on howrelationships are ended. The view is examined on project development and termination.]7. Iveroth, Einar, 2010, "Inside Ericsson: a framework for the practice of leading global ITenabledchange", California Management Review, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 136-153.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 16<strong>KoF11</strong>URL:http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/ehost/results?hid=21&sid=9e81d0ef-b3cc-4294-a019-29dc4e358456%40sessionmgr11&vid=2&bquery=(JN+%22California+Management+Review%22+AND+DT+20101101)&bdata=JmRiPWJ1aCZ0eXBlPTAmc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZl[This article explores what it is that managers actually do to successfully lead IT-enabled change. It is based on athree-year case study of the practice of leading IT-enabled change inside the global telecommunicationscompany Ericsson. The findings from the case study are combined with recent research and elevated into the“Commonality Framework for IT-Enabled Change”, which explains how such change can be driven in practice.]8. Pallas, J. and Fredriksson, M. (2011) “Providing, Promoting and Co-opting: Corporate Media Workin a Mediatized Society. Journal of Communication Management 15: 2 (forthcoming).[This paper deals with institutional preconditions for media work of contemporary business organizations andthe way the organizations enact these conditions.]9. Scherdin, M. and Zander, I. (Eds), 2011, Art Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar.[This book explores creative and entrepreneurial processes as they are played out in the field of art. Making anumber of original contributions in the crossroads of art and entrepreneurship, the book speaks to researchersacross these fields, practicing artists interested in promoting and gaining acceptance for their work, as well aspolicy makers concerned with sustained dynamics of the art arena.]2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 17<strong>KoF11</strong>A7.As a result of the previous research assessment, Uppsala University decided to strengthen itsresearch by creating numerous tenure track positions for younger researchers. This wasfinanced centrally and executed at faculty level. The Department of Business Studies gainedan opportunity to use its share of the resources to finance part-time research for one of ouryounger teachers/researchers in accounting. We used this opportunity to strengthen the areathat came out weakest from the previous assessment. This decision was in line with the effortsstarted by the Department already before the previous assessment. The Department hasrecruited five younger lecturers in accounting since 2007. All of these new faculty membersobtained positions that include 50 percent research.The Department suffered a regrettable loss in the autumn of 2007 when our previousprofessor in accounting and finance, Jan Erik Gröjer, passed away. In view of the severecompetition for faculty in the area of accounting, the Department was unable to recruit a newprofessor until the spring of 2010. Although a temporary leader was appointed for this period,development of the sector slowed somewhat while waiting for a permanent recruitment.Despite the rather short period of time our new professor, Fredrik Nilsson, has been inUppsala, he has successfully assembled the faculty around common research questions. Takentogether with the aforementioned recent recruitments, the sector’s situation now seemsencouragingly optimistic.One of the challenges highlighted in the previous assessment was the limited guidance fromexperienced researchers in the Management and Organization group. The panel suggested thatthe group should endeavour to attract prestigious visitors who are eager to work with a groupof ambitious researchers over a long period. Since the assessment, the group has associatedseveral guest professors who now visit the Department on a regular basis. The Department hasalso recruited two professors (one for only about two years) and one senior lecturer. Since theprevious assessment, several members of this group have become senior lecturers and are nowresponsible for applying for funding, recruiting doctoral students, etc.Although the previous panel praised the relatively high degree of integration among thedifferent research sections, they also encouraged the Department to continue to work withintegration in order to find synergies. Since the assessment, the Department has introducedseveral integrated courses with integrated lecturer teams. One of the objectives of thismeasure was to provide an environment where lecturers from different research groupsnaturally socialize with each other. We have also introduced minor release-events when newpublications appear in order to learn more about ongoing research at the Department. TheDepartment has also introduced internal research conferences for the same purpose.Since the previous assessment, the Department has adopted a long-term vision, and preparesan annual plan of the measures to be taken each particular year. The objective is to plan in aconcrete manner the prioritization of resources and efforts for the coming year. Follow-up isperformed annually and is presented to the Department at the beginning of each academicyear. Action plans are prepared separately for research, graduate and undergraduateeducation, external relations and internal environment.The Department of Business Studies has also made major structural changes since 2007 inorder to create better conditions for research. The Department is a large provider of higher2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 18<strong>KoF11</strong>education and one of our major challenges has always been the fact that both research andteaching are conducted by the same faculty. We train approximately 1000 full time students atundergraduate and postgraduate level and about 40 doctoral students per year. Studentallowances paid by the government have declined over the years. This has led to reducedresources for each course and teachers having to take more courses than before, which in turnimplies considerable preparatory time each year. During the last few years, the Departmenthas reorganized the course structure by creating fewer and larger courses. By changing theframework, we have been able to focus teacher-efforts on fewer and larger classes – thusreducing preparatory time and enabling more continuous periods of research.Moreover, the Department has changed the way of sharing internal research resources, whichwere previously shared on a flat basis under current working time agreements. Today, thesefunds are linked to specific projects and achievements. An application and evaluationprocedure has been established in which the Scientific Council reviews the projects andresults.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 19<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsGunilla Eklöv Alander, 41 years, 2008, female, Carl H Witt’s price for best article in Balansfor article ”Förvaltningsrevisionens framtid ifrågasatt, innebär slopad förvaltningsrevisionverkligen en förenkling?” (co-authored with Carl Svernlöv)Leon Caesarius, 38 years, 2009, male, Oscar Sillén’s price for the best dissertation inBusiness Studies for the dissertation: ”In search of Known Unknowns – An EmpiricalInvestigation of the Peripety of a Knowledge Management System”. Företagsekonomiskainstitutet, FEI.Henrik Dellestrand, 30 years, 2008, male, Finalist for the Haynes Prize at the 50th AIBAnnual Conference, Milan, Italy, June 30-July 4, 2008.Henrik Dellestrand, 30 years, 2008, male, and Philip Kappen, 29 years, 2008, male, Winnersof the Copenhagen Prize at the 34th EIBA Annual Conference, Estonia, Tallinn, December11-13, 2008.Henrik Dellestrand, 30 years, 2008, male, Winner of the Michael Z. Brooke Prize for the bestdoctorial paper at the AIB UK & Ireland Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2-4 2009.Maria Grafström, 29 years, 2007, female, Kungliga Vitterhetsakademiens pris för förtjäntvetenskapligt arbete for the dissertation: ”The Development of Swedish Business Journalism”Amjad Hadjikhani, 63 years, 2010, male, Academy for Global Business AdvancementResearch Award; Germany, Berlin, for the research in international marketing.Josef Pallas, 36 years, 2010, male, Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten, Benzeliusbelöning for thedissertation :”Talking Organizations: Corporate Media Work and Negotiation of LocalPractice”.Jimmie Rondell, 31 years, 2008, male, and David Sörhammar, 28 years, 2008, male, TheEvert Gummesson prize in the best paper awards, 22nd service conference and workshop inLondon DEC 2008. For the paper: Remixed - discussing the impact of IT and traditional actoridentities: case findings from the music industry.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 20<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberNumber ofindividualscontributingPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 17 5Invited talks at international conferences 27 8Assignment in research councils and foundations 31 8Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer28 10positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 33 11Member of international scientific councils 10 5Member of academies and learned societies 24 10Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Hosting of conferences and workshops, member in pricecommittees (e g Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory ofAlfred Nobel), member in academic boards, opponent on publicdefenses, member of dissertation evaluation committees, etc.44 17B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 12Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 13Number of granted external funds for new projects 14Other, specify: ………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 30Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 29Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 36Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific16expeditions, field work etc.):Research expert for UNCTAD, opponent on public defenses abroad,conference reviewing, external examiner of dissertations, etc.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 21<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships -Popular science papers/books 9Textbooks 33Spin-off commercial companies 1Governmental/societal assignments 12Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,18popular science presentations etc.):Popular science presentations, investigations and assessment reports, etc.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 22<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (see general comments in part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of Social and Economic Geography(Kulturgeografiska institutionen)A1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions and goals aswell defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.A1 (i) Summary of the current research activities.Research is characterized by considerable thematic, methodological and theoretical breadth.Since the last evaluation we have reorganized our research around four central themes. Ourmission is to give form to areas where we have demonstrable thematic specialization but alsoto construct broad group themes designed to avoid sub-disciplinary segmentation and rivalryin order to encourage new conversations and research directions. All academic staff contributeto at least one of these research themes, and several of these are promoted by regular researchmeetings and seminars.Within and between these four thematic pillars our academic staff are characterized byconsiderable methodological and theoretical pluralism. Statistical analyses and spatialmodelling co-exist with in-depth case studies based on qualitative approaches. It is thisenriching and eclectic mix that we believe gives strength to our research culture and supportsboth thematic specialisation and constant renewal.Theme 1: Culture, Creativity and EconomyThis group theme brings together work on: the geographic foundations of creativity; and thedynamics of the cultural and creative industries. Members of this theme are focused on themultiple geographies that underpin creativity and in two socio-spatial processes that underpinall types of cultural innovation and creativity: individual learning and knowledge creation; theassembly of individual knowledge in projects, firms and cultural artefacts and landscapes. Forboth the role of proximity is supposed to be crucial.Extensive work has been done on cultural and creative industries: on rapidlyexpanding inter-related and inter-dependent industries such as design, music, computergames, film and television, new media, fashion, visual arts and advertising. Creative andcultural industries are treated using commercial, industrial and geographical perspectives andattention is paid to the role of individuals as well as the districts and milieus where creativeindividuals and firms seem to thrive.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>Theme 2: Innovation, Industry and Regions in ChangeThis theme gathers those interested in how innovation and institutional change co-evolve withprocesses of industrial and local, urban and regional transformation and change. Projects havefocused on: life science/biotech; tourism and food production; high-end consumer goods;regional change from a gender perspective; finance’s role in urban and regional crisis andadjustment.One strand highlights processes of spatial clustering. Empirical studies investigateinter-firm relations of various sorts (business transactions, joint development projects, labourmobility) and entrepreneurship within and across cluster boundaries. Also involvesdeveloping conceptual and theoretical frameworks for understanding processes of spatialclustering and localised learning.Another strand focuses upon interfaces between universities, regions and firms. Thiswork looks at scientific research, knowledge spillover, commercialization and academicentrepreneurship. Related to this is an active engagement with policy.Theme 3: Planning, Space and SustainabilityEmploying different geographical approaches and time perspectives this theme addressesissues related to physical and spatial planning. Research focuses on: the changing ideologicalunderpinnings of planning and their spatial articulation; the ways in which planning strategiesconflict with or incorporate the changing social and economic structures of society; and therelationship between planning and environmental change. The focus is often multi-scalar, i.e.attention is paid to the relationship between processes operating at local and global scales, andhow they impinge on issues of planning and sustainability in the social, economic andenvironmental spheres. Recognizing the temporality of spatial processes and the dynamicinterface between human and physical systems, we are interested in the relationship betweengeographical change and stability, and planning.Within this overall framework, research falls into three main areas:• Urban and rural housing research.• Resource management and planning.• Varieties of urban space and place usage.Theme 4: Mobility, Space and IdentityA prevalent characteristic of modern society is mobility, ranging from everyday movementsin local environments, to commuting in urban regions, to long-term urban-rural interactions,and to historical and contemporary migration on the global scale. Against this background,research focuses on the individual and collective sense of belonging in changing life worlds.Research addresses the significance of space, place and landscape in processes of identityformation, at various geographical scales. Notions of home and identity are examined, with anexplicit interest in the institutions and practices underpinning local, regional and nationalbelonging.Within this overall framework, research falls into three main areas:• Notions of home and identity in a globalized world.• Rural identities and geographies.• Contested geographies of national identity.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>A1 (ii) Actions to improve quality and hinders to research quality.(See also section A3). Improving quality is an important challenge in the future but one wehave already started to tackle. Three action-sets are viewed as particularly important:recruitment of early career and international researchers; planning for demographic transitionand support for early career researchers to reach docent and professor level; and continuedinternationalization of our working practices.Action is also needed to supplement a long tradition of Swedish language monographbasedpublication, with a stronger focus on publishing in peer-reviewed international journal.This is viewed as crucial to our ability to communicate our research to wider communities andalso to our ability to attract the brightest international academics. Further recruitment andstrategic resources are needed to aid this process.A1 (iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, organizational placement.The department’s research is so extensively characterised by interdisciplinary orientation thatis impossible to describe in the space allotted. Human geography is one of the most open andreceptive social sciences and constantly appropriates and contributes to approaches andmethodologies developing within other disciplines and at trans-disciplinary levels.We have active links with other institutions at Uppsala, in Scandinavia and elsewherein the world. Staff cooperate in significant international networks of excellence such as DIME(www.dime-eu.org) as well as in many cooperative international research projects. Added tothis considerable support is given to helping all levels of staff build networks throughexchanges and conference participation.We consider our present place as a part of the Faculty of Social Sciences to bestenable the nature of our research and discipline.A2.A2 i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.A2 ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.The department has enjoyed success in two main types of research: advanced postgraduatetraining and research; establishing a number of nationally significant research profiles.Doctoral school research.We view postgraduates as a central part of our research milieu. Postgraduates are viewed lessas students than as junior colleagues that have a vital role in our research quality anddirection. However, doctoral students are given extensive supervision and guidance whilst wealso actively encourage postgraduates to develop their own research agendas and topics, andto choose their own supervision (every postgraduate has two official supervisors). In short wehave taken an active decision to view postgraduate research as independent and self-directedand to eschew the idea that postgraduates must fit into existing interests and projects. Thisstance has not negatively affected quality. Rather the reverse is the case: independentlymotivated and driven postgraduates have helped new ideas and research themes to emerge andtake root in our department.The Department has, in the last decade or so, been truly outstanding when it comes toPhD training in geography in Sweden. Since 2000, Uppsala has produced roughly as manyPhDs in human geography as all other universities in Sweden put together. Our PhD program2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>attracts applicants from throughout Scandinavia and beyond. We also attract many requestsfrom doctoral students from other countries to spend time in our milieu: these requests arestrictly vetted for quality. Funding is a vital issue for doctoral research since we have toguarantee each person a salary for the entire period of their doctorate, which means long termfinancial commitments that does not always sit well with the necessity to seek externalfunding to support doctoral research. After a difficult funding period we are now in a positionto admit up to six new doctoral students this year.As we also stated in the 2007 <strong>Evaluation</strong>, a constant challenge for the future is tochannel some of the persistent innovativeness with which we have managed to fund an ‘oversized’PhD program into funding post-doctoral and tenure-track positions. In order tomaintain our PhD program and improve our research quality we need to attract youngscholars. Since 2007 we have actively worked to expand our postdoctoral staff and we feelthat this is as important to supporting the postgraduate milieu as it is to supporting futureresearch leaders.A significant recent success in our postgraduate research was securing in 2008 aNational Research School in Geography (forskarskola i geografi). This was a special initiativefrom the Government and the Scientific research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to create, in anumber of disciplines, national research training centres with the aim of allowing secondaryschool teachers to gain licentiate degrees (equivalent of half a doctoral degree). The aim is tocontribute to lift the quality of scientific competence in Swedish secondary education and tobetter connect the school and university systems. This two and half year initiative brought thedepartment 35.8 million SEK and allowed us to employ new staff to help supervise, etc. 25licentiate students. While the first phase is currently in the process of finishing off we arehoping for an extension of the scheme.Nationally and internationally significant research profilesOur new structure of research themes means that each theme can demonstrate at least nationalor Nordic significance, whilst some of our researchers have established internationallysignificant profiles. Each theme involves researchers that have been extremely successful insecuring funding from Swedish, Nordic and European funding bodies. Across the board thereis an active participation in international conferences and staff can draw on wide-ranginginternational contact networks.Theme 1: Culture, Creativity and EconomyResearch on cultural industries by members of this group have been highly cited withineconomic geography and Uppsala is recognised as the largest cultural industries researchgroup in Sweden and one of the foremost groups in the world. Research has addressed theindustrial systems supportive if cultural industries but new projects are examining creativityin its wider sense as well as the issue of market constructions of quality. Benchmarkinstitutions for this work are the Imagine group at Copenhagen Business School and the grouparound Prof Allen Scott at UCLA; the Uppsala group has active research links with bothgroups. The theme convenor Dominic Power has been given the task of defining newmeasurement indicators for DG Enterprise and Industry, and has been appointed boardmember of the Government’s Council for Creative and Cultural Industries. A noted memberof the theme’s wider creativity focus is professor emeritus Gunnar Olsson who is an activemember and an internationally recognized theoretical influence on issues of creativity andspatiality.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>Theme 2: Innovation, Industry and Regions in ChangeResearch within this theme has been prominent in international debates in economicgeography. The research centre CIND (www.cind.uu.se) has contributed to giving economicgeographers at Uppsala an internationally established reputation. Several papers from thisgroup, especially those of Anders Malmberg, are among the most highly cited papers ineconomic geography globally. There is a continuous inflow of visitors from Europe andbeyond (at PhD, postdoc and professorial level) seeking affiliation with this group. There arewell-developed links with other European and North American strongholds within thisresearch theme, including those at the universities of Utrecht, Manchester and Toronto.Theme 3: Spatial Planning and SustainabilityThose in this theme with explicit foci on urban issues have been extremely prominent innational debates, planning and policy in relation to ethnic integration and segregation. Currentresearch focuses on the dynamics and effects of ethnic residential segregation, makingimportant contributions to the international literature in this field. Their work is closelyassociated with Uppsala’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF www.ibf.uu.se),which is one of Europe’s leading interdisciplinary centres for urban and housing research andwhose director Roger Andersson is a member of the department. Research is pioneering newmethodological approaches to urban research: both quantitative methods employinginnovative use of net-based research and qualitative methods such as participatory planning.There is exciting emerging research in this theme by Jan Boelhouwers that is addressing theissue of sustainability through regional landscape dynamics and change as well as a longtradition of excellent research by Göran Hoppe others on areas of rapid transition in post-Communist Europe.Theme 4: Mobility, Space and IdentityThose within this group who are specifically focused on rurality and mobility are one of theleading research milieus for rural studies in the Nordic region and is strengthened by closeresearch contacts with the ‘benchmark’ Rural and Urban Studies department (SOL) at SLU.Within the theme there is work on geographical articulations of identities based on gender,race, age and ethnicity: a field that is at the cutting edge of human geography. Issues oftransnational mobility and democratisation and the situation of children, the elderly, andrefugees or immigrants have been addressed; both in research and for example for the EU,OSCE and UN by Aida Aragao Lagergren. In addition, research on national identities andcontested political geographies has drawn from research in the US, Estonia and other placesand resulted in papers in some of human geography’s highest ranked A-list journals.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspectiveof 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of theseresearch directions would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. interms of proportion between different categories of researchers and other personnel.Our approach to priority research directions over the next 5-10 years is three-fold. Firstly, weexpect that by supporting our staff in the existing research areas they have chosen to prioritizepromising research directions will evolve. Our main strategy then for renewal is to developfurther the individual research fields where we are currently strongest. The four profile areasare based on successive development over a long period and are currently underpinned byboth permanent staff and by various research projects that span several years into the future.Our aim with our four research themes/groups is that these will be coordinated (partly by theconveners) with a view to support career development and the strengthening of research andpublication activities. In each area mentorship will be offered and there is the expectation thatnew projects will draw on existing staff as well as attract new researchers. In the next fiveyears it is likely then that we will build on the themes already described. This is not to say thatwe do not prioritize renewal, rather that most renewal in the next five years will to a largeextent take place within existing profiles. In the period following this it is likely that a similarconstellation of research themes exists but that have begun to change character and direction.Secondly, we aim to continue to work with the idea that human geography is subject tocentrifugal forces. Just as the unified discipline of geography once split into physical andhuman geography, there are now tendencies that economic geography orients itself towardsother economic sciences, social geography towards other social and behavioural sciences,cultural geography towards humanities and philosophy, etc. This specialization is in manyways positive - neither to be opposed nor regretted - but it does form a challenge for a(human) geography department: to assure that there is development at the core of, and across,the discipline and not just at the fringes. One part of our strategic renewal aims at stimulatingresearch initiatives that address conceptual and methodological underpinnings that help linkdifferent geographers and geographies together. There is enormous potential for crossfertilizationbetween economic, social and cultural geography. This is the reason that we havenot defined our research culture in terms of exclusive groupings but rather in terms of separatebut interrelated themes. We have made it clear to staff that they should be involved in morethan one theme. The idea here is that we attempt to create dialogue between staff, specialtiesand projects that have previously been viewed as relatively separate and guarded. It isimportant not just for the spread of new research ideas but moreover crucial to the spread ofprofessional advice and mentoring from better-published researchers to others. The hope isthat an inclusive research milieu will allow all researchers to get the support and stimulationthey need to reach higher. In order to do institutionalise this idea of attempting to mitigateagainst centrifugal forces we will retain the idea that there is one main departmental seminarseries and that all staff should if possible attend. Whilst we support more specialised seminarsand workshops, at a departmental level we do not want to see further fragmentation and areactively working to promote cross-theme seminars and workshops.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>Thirdly, the appointment of new staff in the immediate future and in the 5-10 year period willallow for new directions to appear. Staff turnover plus the retirement of some senior staff inthe next 10 years will radically affect the research profile of a relatively small department.Until new appointments and replacements have been made no exact answer to the question ofwhat our research direction will be. However, appointments will be made with hindsight tothe department’s existing strengths combined with the need to plug some holes in ourundergraduate and postgraduate teaching needs. The four research groups identified inSection A1 will be the primary guide to our recruitment. Of course the specificities of therecruitment process at Uppsala – in particular the reliance on external referees forappointment recommendations – means that we will not be able to completely steer theappointment process. Beyond such considerations is our commitment to only recruit staff thatare research active at the highest level or that have demonstrable potential to be futureresearch leaders. Examples of our search for high quality new staff is that this year we will beadvertising for two new lecturers and up to six new doctoral students. In addition we activelysupport and encourage suitable (vetted) individuals who want to apply for postdoctoralfunding to work at our institution: in 2011 we will support/nominate three individuals tovarious financiers. We are also active in applying for funding to build up our postdoctoralbase: this year for example we have applied for funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond torecruit up to two postdoctoral fellows (in the general area of economic geography) fromoutside Sweden. In addition the department every year makes many research fundingapplications and these frequently include funding for postdoctoral fellows. In this context ithas been a clear policy in recent years to prioritize securing funding for postdoctoralpositions.In the 5-10 year period our major research priority is to intensify our research output. Staffingis an important issue in attaining this but since at present 83% of our staff is research active itis not a major priority to change the proportions between different categories of researchersand other personnel. Rather it is most important to encourage increased productivity (ie morepublications per research active staff member), to increase the international standing of ouroutput (ie through encouraging more publications in international journals), and to increasequality (again by shifting more towards international peer reviewed publication forms).2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.1. Andersson, Eva, Östh, John and Malmberg, Bo (2010) “Ethnic segregation andperformance inequality in the Swedish school system: a regional perspective.” Environmentand Planning A, 42(11): 2674-2686.2. Christophers, Brett (2009) Envisioning Media Power: On Capital and Geographies ofTelevision. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.3. Grubbström, Ann (2011) “Emotional bonds as obstacles to land sale: attitudes to landamong local and absentee landowners in Northwest Estonia.” Landscape and UrbanPlanning, 99(1): 31-39.4. Hauge, Atle, Malmberg, Anders and Power, Dominic (2009) “The Spaces and Places ofSwedish Fashion”. European Planning Studies, 17(4): 529 - 547.5. Power, Dominic and Jansson, Johan (2008) “Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits:Overlapping Spaces and Furniture Industry Trade Fairs.” Economic Geography, 84(4): 423-448.6. Waxell, Anders and Malmberg, Anders (2007). “What is global and what is local inknowledge-generating interaction? The case of the biotech cluster in Uppsala, Sweden.”Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 19(2): 137-159.A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Christophers, Brett (2009). "Complexity, finance, and progress in human geography." Progress inHuman Geography 33(6): 807-824.Jansson, David. (2010). “Racialization and “Southern” identities of resistance: Apsychogeography of internal orientalism in the U.S.” Annals of the Association of AmericanGeographers 100(1): 202-221.Östh, John (2010). “Introducing a Method for the Computation of Doubly Constrained AccessibilityModels in Larger Datasets”. Networks and Spatial Economics, Online First, 14 April 20102011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Ildikó Asztalos Morell joined the department in 2008 but many of her publications inthe KoF period are not listed under the institution:• Asztalos Morell, I (2009) “The importance of cultural, economic and social capital inthe genesis of farm family enterprises during the transition from state socialism tocapitalism in Hungary.” In: Àgnes Neményi (ed) Trends in Land Sucession, PressaUniversitate Cluja, Cluj-• Asztalos Morell, I and Bock, B (2008) “Dynamics of change and reconstitution inhegemonic and rural gender regimes” in: Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Bettina Bock(eds) Gender regimes, citizen participation and rural restructuring, Elsevier, RuralDevelopment Series, 2008• Asztalos Morell, I (2008) “Care work in Hungarian agrarian entrepreneur familiesduring the post-socialist transition” in Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Bettina Bock (eds)Gender regimes, citizen participation and rural restructuring, Elsevier, RuralDevelopment Series.• Asztalos Morell, I and Bock, B (2008) “Rural gender regimes: the development ofrural gender research and design of a comparative approach”, in: Ildikó AsztalosMorell and Bettina Bock (eds) Gender regimes, citizen participation and ruralrestructuring, Elsevier, Research in Rural Sociology and Development Series.• Asztalos Morell, I (2007) “How to combine motherhood and wage labour. Hungarianlabour expert debate during the sixties” in Rebecca Kay (ed) Gender, Equality andDiversity During State Socialism and After, Palgrave.• Asztalos Morell, I (2007) “Between Harmony and Conflicting Interests: GenderedMarital Negotiations in Hungarian Post-socialist Farm Family Enterprises”, Journal ofComparative Family Studies, 435-458• Asztalos Morell, I and Brandth, B (eds) (2007) “Family and Gender in theTransforming Countryside”, special issue editorial for the Journal of ComparativeFamily Studies, June.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effects orimplications of KoF07 for the department.The results of KoF07 were greatly appreciated and debated within the department. Many inthe department felt that the evaluation exercise was an important signal that the Universityhad begun to take seriously the importance and focus that many staff place on research intheir working lives.A negative aspect of KoF07 was that it left certain sections of the department feelingundervalued and marginalized. This was something we had to take very seriously as in a smalldepartment negative attitudes can significantly affect the overall motivational level. Our newapproach to describing and grouping our department is an outcome of combating suchattitudes. We have tried to create research groupings that are based on broad interests and oninclusion. We hope that by linking less published researchers with better-published ones ininclusive research groupings we may encourage mentorship, positive motivational factors aswell as potential joint publications. This new formal structure which attempts to betterincorporate CIND, IBF and other research groups in a dialogue is in direct response to thesuggestion made in the earlier evaluation: “The panel recommends that the opportunities toformalize the division of labour between the different departments and research groups,connected to human and economic geography that exist within the region, should be exploredin depth”.The goal with the four themes organizational form is to create an inclusive researchculture that celebrates specialization at the same time as it celebrates dialogue and newintersections. The idea is that these themes do not just reflect existing research: they are notjust containers for existing projects. They are thematic groups where staff can explore newprojects and intersections with other staff. We feel strongly that a culture based on high levelsof sub-disciplinary specialization is not the best way to encourage an inclusive researchculture or new innovative directions.As mentioned earlier (section A2) an important challenge identified in KoF07 washow fund post-doctoral and tenure track positions in order to maintain our PhD programmeand improve our research quality. Attracting young scholars has been a much lesser problemthan guaranteeing longer term funding. As the KoF07 report noted the department’s reliance(with the notable exception of CIND) on single project external funding leads to problems forcreating longer-term positions and for reaching critical mass in certain areas. We have beenvery active in supporting postdoctoral scholars and as mentioned earlier have taken a numberof steps in this regard. In particular we have tried in recent years to emphasise postdoctoralfunding in applications for project support. Whilst this may not led to longer-term careers inmany cases it has allowed us to employ postdoctoral scholars for periods between six monthsand four years. We have been active in supporting promising candidates that have applied(and often received) individual postdoctoral stipends from research foundations (such asHandelsbankens forskningsstiftelserna) and research councils (Vetenskapsrådet). Nonethelessit remains a difficult to create more permanent solutions with a visible tenure track system andthis issue is one we are constantly aware of.2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>As the KoF07 further noted “the praxis to distinguish between chair holders with a fairopportunity to conduct research, and promoted professors with limited research opportunities,might also be a constraint”. This is an issue that should be of deep concern for the Universityin general and is one subject to considerable debate. Nonetheless the distinction remains.A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsA9. Additional sources of informationwww.kultgeog.uu.sewww.cind.uu.se2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 53 10Invited talks at international conferences 110 16Assignment in research councils and foundations 19 8Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 13 6positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 20 8Member of international scientific councils 5 3Member of academies and learned societies 39 19Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):• Hosting of six (6) conferences in the period, including oneat one University in Chile• Hosting Network conference Rum och Plats 2011• Bostadsmötet 2008• Bostadsmötet 2010• NSBB 2010Total number 269Number of individuals contributing 73 (count)10 3Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 6Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 6Number of granted external funds for new projects 46Other, specify:B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 3Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 6Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 37Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific expeditions, 15field work etc.):Responses from departmental survey:• Field work in west Estonia - archival information, interviews and field observations onseveral occasions.• 2-3 periods of fieldwork per year until June 2010 to Sri Lanka in connection with own2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>research project on migration. Fieldwork in Dubai.• Unspecified Field work (3 responses)• Field studies in Estonia• Fieldwork in Italy, US, Denmark, Norway, Iceland.• Scientific expedition to sub-Antarctic Marion Island (2007-9)• Fieldwork Swedish mountains (2007-2010)• Project fieldwork and workshops in South Africa -Lesotho (2007-2010)• Fieldwork in Guatemala (2011)• Research workshops Switzerland (2007-2011)• Number of field work projects 4• 2 extensive scholarships for research visits abroad• Field work in Sweden and FinlandB4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 3Popular science papers/books 28Textbooks 7Spin-off commercial companies 0Governmental/societal assignments 48Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents, popular 98science presentations etc.):• Popular science presentations in several contexts in Sweden and Estonia• Popular science presentations = 3• 10 popular presentations• Board Member of Government Council for Creative and Cultural Industries (LedamotRådet för kulturella och kreativa näringar)• Popular science presentations 8• Workshops with goverment officials 5• I created the museum exhibit "Broar över åländska vatten" (Bridges over Ålandicwaters) for Ålands Museum (Mariehamn, Finland) during the summer of 2010. Thisexhibition was based on my research project studying migration from the Åland Islandsto Sweden and the Finnish mainland.• Following the publishing of my PhD dissertation: 1 interview in national radio, 1interview in newspaper, 2 interviews in magazines, and 1 invited interview/discussionwith top national university management.• invited presentation at "Åland to America: Footprints" conference in the Åland Islandson three American artists with roots on Åland: Haddon Sundblom, Warner Sallman andPhil Fagerholm, 2009.• 41 Invited talks at national conferences and workshops• 22 interviews for national media (TV, radio and newspapers)2011-02-28 Department of Social and Economic Geography v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of EconomicsA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.i) Give a summary of the current research activities.Research at the economics department at Uppsala University is mainly devoted to three areas,viz. macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. In addition, there is ongoingresearch in econometrics, financial economics, environmental economics, housing and urbaneconomics and development economics. Most research at the department can be described asapplied in a broad sense, including applied theory, empirical studies and applied econometrics.A distinctive aspect is the extensive use of micro data on individuals as well as firms. There isno other Swedish economics department with a similar emphasis on empirical work based onmicro data. This orientation reflects in part an exceptionally good ‘infrastructure’ regardingmicro data. Several current and previous faculty members have been instrumental in thecreation of this infrastructure. The orientation towards micro data is also reinforced by the closecooperation between researchers at the department and researchers at the Uppsala-basedInstitute for Labour Market Policy <strong>Evaluation</strong> (IFAU).Policy relevance is another characteristic feature of the department’s research profile. A largeshare of the research deals directly or indirectly with public policy issues. This covers a widerange of research, including theoretical work, development of evaluation methodology andevaluations of specific policies.One research theme in macroeconomics is to improve the microeconomic foundations ofmacroeconomics by modeling firm dynamics theoretically and empirically using time seriesand firm-level data. The use of firm-level data allows us to distinguish the effects of varioussupply and demand factors on firm behavior with respect to employment, price setting,investment, capacity utilization etc. Another theme is evaluation of monetary policy withinflation targeting. There is also research on exchange rate fluctuations, the macroeconomicconsequences of demographic changes and on economic growth and the interaction betweeninternational trade and technological progress/transfer in models with heterogeneous firms.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>In labor economics, several projects have examined behavioral effects of changes in sicknessand unemployment insurance rules. Some of these projects adopt quasi-experimentalempirical strategies in order to identify causal effects. This means a careful inspection ofchanges in institutional rules and the identification of ‘treatment’ and ‘control’ groups, i.e.,groups exposed to a policy change and groups not (directly) affected. Other projects haveundertaken randomized experiments to examine behavioral effects of specific interventionsthat are likely to influence incentives.Economics of education has been a very active research area in the department over the pastyears. This research has in part been funded by a six-year grant from FAS (the SwedishCouncil for Working Life and Social Research) and also through the EU research networkEconomics of Education and Education Policy in Europe. This network has involvedresearchers from six countries. The research at Uppsala has resulted in nine PhD theses, fourother monographs and a large number of journal articles.Research in public economics includes various theoretical and empirical projects on taxation,fiscal federalism and welfare reforms. Projects on taxation, which is a research area that hasexpanded substantially in recent years through the creation of Uppsala Center for FiscalStudies (UCFS; see below), include studies of the interrelationship between taxation,migration and international commuting, the interactions between public expenditures andtaxes, empirical studies of behavioral effects and welfare implications of the tax system,studies on capital income taxation, firm behavior and entrepreneurship, and studies on taxevasion and tax avoidance.Projects on fiscal federalism include studies of the effects of intergovernmental grants onlocal government (municipal) decision making (such as the effects of grants on local tax rates,municipal spending and municipal employment) and studies of strategic interactions amonglocal governments (such as studies of welfare competition, tax competition and yardstickcompetition). Projects on welfare reforms include studies on the effects of activationprograms for welfare receivers on welfare participation and labor supply.A number of projects deal with various <strong>aspects</strong> of political behavior, political economics. Workin this area includes studies on the determinants of voting behavior, the effects of voting onpolitical attitudes, the correspondence between voters’ and politicians’ preferences and the roleof individual characteristics of politicians for political success and for political decisionmaking.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.Building a large, lively, cooperative and high-qualitative research environment is imperativefor the quality of the department’s research. Since 2008, three important actions have beenundertaken to improve along these lines; the creation of two research centers at thedepartment (Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies) andrecruitment of junior researchers on the international job market.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>The Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS) was established in the fall of 2008 with SörenBlomquist as director. About 20 scholars (also from other universities in Sweden and fromabroad) and 3-4 PhD students are associated with the Center. The activities of the UCFSinclude a seminar series, mini-courses for researchers/PhD students and an ambitious visitorsprogram. Workshops and conferences with international experts and participants both fromSweden and from abroad are held regularly. In 2009, 15 research papers were published in theUCFS Working Paper Series and in 2010 another 15. (See http://ucfs.nek.uu.se/ for moreinformation).The Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) started on January 1, 2010, with BertilHolmlund as director. UCLS is a so-called FAS-center, funded by a 10-year grant toUppsala University from FAS. UCLS focuses on three broad research themes, namely (i)labor market institutions and employment relations, (ii) unemployment and socialprotection, and (iii) earnings, education, and inequality. As of January 2011, UCLS has40 affiliated researchers and 14 affiliated PhD students. The center organizes workshops,seminars and provides a working paper series (20 research papers published so far). (Seehttp://ucls.nek.uu.se/ for more information).In 2008, the department started recruiting on the international job market. During the firstthree years we hired eight persons, six of which are still at the department. Those sixhave their PhD degrees from European University Institute, Northwestern University,Paris School of Economics, University College London, University of Washington, andVanderbilt University. In the ongoing process, we had 189 applicants, interviewed 16 atthe American Economic Association Meeting in Denver, 11 at the Royal EconomicSociety Meeting in London and 3 in Uppsala, and at the time of writing we have had 14candidates flying into Uppsala for seminars and interviews.These three actions have all had a very positive effect on the overall quality of theresearch at the department and we have no doubt that it will continue to improve thequality of the research output in the future. Both UCLS and UCFS will continue tostrongly influence the research environment at the department, and we strive atcontinuing recruiting at the international job market. For the latter, it is important forfuture research that we are able to provide “tenure track assistant professor” positions.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.A large interdisciplinary venture was initiated through the creation of Uppsala Center forLabor Studies. UCLS comprises researchers from economics, political science and labor law.UCLS has so far initiated three different initiatives that may strengthen cooperation betweenparticipating departments. First, it has started to work on creating new data of commoninterest for the participating disciplines. The research group has access to very rich data. Theambition is to augment existing data bases, based on population registers on individuals andfirms, by initiating a workplace employment relations survey in order to study the changingpatterns of unionization, wage structures and employment protection.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>Second, UCLS is organizing an annual national workshop in Industrial Relations(http://ucls.nek.uu.se/Conferences/IR/Program%20konferens%20i%20arbetsmarknadsrelationer%2025_26%20oktober.pdf). This workshop aims at increasing contacts between differentdisciplines in this area. Third, UCLS is starting a joint workshop between economics andpolitical science on political economy.The economics of ageing has recently attracted much interest from researchers and policymakers. Department members collaborate in large interdisciplinary projects in this area. Oneis the SHARE project (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe), one of the largestsocial sciences projects funded by the European Union. It collects and analyses data on health,labor market experiences and household resources from people aged 50+ in 12 Europeancountries.Another interdisciplinary undertaking involves collaboration with researchers from theFaculty of Medicine through Uppsala University Psychosocial Care Program (U-CARE).This program has its fundamental goal to prevent and reduce psychosocial ill health. Theresearch is initially focusing on investigating the effect of support and cognitive behavioraltherapy in patients and their loved ones. The department provides expertise to the program inthe areas of health economics and quantitative methodology.At an individual level, there are several of the researchers at the department that collaborateswith researchers in other disciplines (such as political scientists, sociologists and statisticians).Regarding the suitability of the present organizational placement within Uppsala Universitywe have no objections.A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.There are several successful research activities at the department. Here we will highlight afew of them within the fields of labor economics, public economics and macroeconomics.Labor economics and public economics represent two strong research groups at thedepartment. There is a substantial degree of research cooperation and interactions betweenthese two groups. They have a strong research record and a very good internationalreputation. Given the creation of UCFS and UCLS this picture is quite likely to bestrengthened in the years to come.Research on fiscal issues is especially strong at the department at the moment. Often theanalysis of the effects of taxes and the optimal design of the tax system is done without takinginto account how the tax revenue is used. In research performed in collaboration with VidarChristiansen (Oslo University), Sören Blomquist, Luca Micheletto and Spencer Bastani showthat the view of the effect of taxes can be substantially changed, once the expenditure side istaken into account.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>As an example, in the article "Public Provision of Private Goods and Non-distortionaryMarginal Tax Rates" (forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) theyshow that some forms of public expenditures, like public provision of child care, implies thatpart of the marginal tax serves the same role as a market price in the sense that it givesinformation about a real social cost of working more hours. Hence, part of the marginal taxrate is corrective and not distortionary.In empirical work on the effects of taxes, Håkan Selin works together with Jukka Pirttilä(Tampere University), Annette Alstadsæter (Oslo University) and Erik Fjærli (StatisticsNorway) on a project where, by combining data from the Nordic countries, they study howthe attempts of self-employed to shift income between labor income and capital incomedepends on tax rules and tax rates and Sören Blomquist and Che Yuan Liang works withWhitney Newey (MIT) and Anil Kumar (Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas) on a project wherethey develop a non-parametric method to estimate how taxable income is affected by changesin the tax system. The method is applied to both Swedish and U.S. data. Also, Henry Ohlssonand Stefan Hochguertel (VU University, Amsterdam), works on a project concerning theeffects of the Swedish wealth tax and its design on the taxable amount of wealthy citizens andthe individuals and household mobility in the wealth distribution.Within labor economics, research on the economics of education has recently been verysuccessful at the department. Educational attainment is a key determinant of individual laborearnings and other outcomes in the labor market. The educational system in Sweden hasundergone major changes. Some of the most important institutional changes in the 1990s werethe decentralization of authority over primary and secondary education, and the introductionof competition between schools. These institutional changes may also be important for howthe education system affects the distribution of outcomes in the labor market. In a recentresearch program, ”Education and inequality”, the aims were at improving our understandingof the relationship between education and inequality through a number of studies in threemain areas: a) the returns to education, b) education and productivity, and c) educationalreforms and inequality. Most of the empirical studies make use of data sets with richinformation on educational performance as well as individual and family characteristics.Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert have studied how school resources affect studentachievement (Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2008). Over the period 1990 to 2003,teacher density fell significantly in Sweden; from 9.1 to 7.7 measured as number of teachersper 100 students. The paper finds clear negative effects of increased class sizes on studentperformance as measured by grades in school and results in subsequent tests. Fredriksson andÖckert have also examined the effect of early school start (under revision for EconomicJournal). In Sweden, children typically enter school the year during which they become 7. Bycomparing children born late in the year with children born early in a subsequent year, it ispossible to study the impact of an early school start. The study finds that later starters performbetter in school and acquire more education. Children from families with weak educationalfamily background benefit the most from a late start. However, the late starters enter the labormarket at a later date and their lifetime income is lower than the early starters.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>Martin Söderström and Roope Uusitalo have studied school choice and segregation usinginformation on a school reform in Stockholm that changed the admission system(Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2010). Before the year 2000, prospective high-schoolstudents were assigned to the nearest school; from the fall of 2000, they could apply for anyhigh school and admission was based on grades only. Their study finds that this extension ofschool choice had dramatic effects on the allocation of students. Segregation by abilityincreased as well as segregation by family background and segregation between immigrantsand natives. However, there is no evidence that student performance improved as a result ofthe reform.Inequality is persistent across generations, but the mechanisms behind the intergenerationalcorrelations are not well understood. Mikael Lindahl recently received a large grant from theEuropean Research Council for the research program “Intergenerational correlations ofschooling, income and health: an investigation of the underlying mechanisms.” The objectiveof the project is to use rich Swedish register data to learn about these mechanisms. In the firstpaper within this program, Mikael Lindahl (together with Helena Holmlund and Erik Plug)investigate how much of the association in schooling between a child and a parent that is dueto a causal effect from parental education and how much is transmitted through unobservablefamily factors and genetics. Their results suggest that intergenerational schooling associationsare largely driven by selection. Parental schooling constitutes a large part of the parentalnurture effect, but as a whole does not play a large role. This paper is forthcoming in theJournal of Economic Literature. In an ongoing paper, Mikael Lindahl and Sofia Sandgren(together with Mårten Palme and Anna Sjögren) the aim is to estimate intergenerationalcorrelations in education and income between children and their parents, grandparents andgreat-grandparents, something they are able to do because of a quite unique Swedish data set(including both survey and register information). Because of the rich information involved inthis data set they are also able to present a novel way to test the very influential Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission between generations.One research theme pursued by the macroeconomics research group is price and wageformation. A series of papers have been published on price and wage formation in openeconomies, sluggishness of wage adjustment after macroeconomic shocks, interactionsbetween investment and price setting, the consequences of partial staggering for inflation, andthe implications of customer markets for optimal monetary policy. Papers have beenpublished in Economica, Labour Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, andJournal of Money Credit and Banking and two papers being revised on request from Journalof Money Credit and Banking and Journal of Monetary Economics.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking and state the department’s view on its own standing incomparison to these.In terms of thinking about potential benchmarks for the department, it may be useful to doso in two dimensions – the general research output of the entire department and theperformance of the individual research groups. Natural candidates to serve as generalbenchmarks would be Economics departments with both teaching, graduate programs andresearch. We think that top Scandinavian institutions in e.g. Aarhus, Bergen, Oslo andStockholm constitute suitable benchmarks for the overall performance of the department.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>In the areas of Uppsala’s specialties, we would in a longer term aim at comparing with topEuropean research groups.At the 2007 evaluation of Uppsala University (Quality and Renewal 2007; KoF07), theexpert panel wrote about the Department of Economics: “… we find that the researchquality of the three aforementioned research areas is somewhere between world leadingand internationally high standard research.”In the spring of 2010 UCFS was evaluated by an international team consisting of MattiTuomala, Agnar Sandmo and Friedrich Scneider. The three reviewers were very satisfiedwith the activities and research. One of the reviewers wrote in his evaluation report ”Thescientific competence of these researchers is excellent” and he concluded with “a verysuccessful research project; a lot of high quality and new scientific output”.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.By international standards, Sweden has experienced a tremendous increase in the availability ofhigh quality longitudinal micro level data for individuals and firms. The new data sets are inmany cases based on administrative registers and contain the whole population or hugerepresentative samples of the relevant populations. There has also been increasing possibilitiesto merge different types of data, for example matched employer-employee data, where datacontain information on all workers at each firm along with information on firm characteristics.However, the available register data can be improved on by adding new (and new type of) data.It has for example become more feasible to combine survey data with register information onindividuals and/or firms. This is a fruitful avenue to pursue. Let us illustrate with a couple ofexamples.The main advantage with studies based on large register data sets is that they have largepotential when performing quasi or natural experiments. As an example one can createprospective information retrospectively and this, hence, enables pre and post comparisons ofinstitutional changes. The disadvantage is that it is most often difficult to tell what the processis behind an observed result, that is, the reason for a result is within the “black box”. This isan often large drawback when designing future policy. We believe that one of the mostpromising future research directions is to combine survey and register data since this willenables identification of policy relevant parameters. In order for the survey to be informativeon policy relevant parameters the survey needs, however, to be well designed and in mostsettings one should ask for responders expectations. To take an example, let us consider a casewhere interest is in estimating the role of economic incentives for schooling choices. Thenstandard practice within the economic profession has been to place various assumptions onexpectation formation and estimate this model based on observational data. There is noevidence that prevailing assumptions about the returns to education in the economic literatureare correct. This can lead to difficulties in drawing inference about schooling decisions fromobservational data.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>Surprisingly, however, economists have generally not been interested in how well theirmaintained assumptions about expectations correspond to reality. One research idea is then toask high school students about their expectations and about their future education plan andthen combine their statement with their real choice from register a few years later. This wouldprovide more valid and highly policy relevant estimates about the economic incentives forhigher education then obtained in earlier studies.Also, as mentioned earlier, one of the main ambitions within the UCLS program is to augmentexisting data bases by initiating a workplace employment relations survey in order to study thechanging patterns of unionization, wage structures and employment protection.A further example is future work within the ERC research program “Intergenerationalcorrelations of schooling, income and health: an investigation of the underlying mechanisms”(which will involve work on the intergenerational correlations of life expectancy and health,and investigation of the importance of nature-nurture interactions for individual outcomes).The research grant will be used to collect additional data (from older censuses and historicalinformation from local authorities) and combine it with currently available register data. Thiswill ensure that new policy related questions, relevant for the theme of this program, can beanalyzed.The Uppsala department, with its strong track record in quantitative research, is wellpositioned to make fruitful use of the improved infrastructure that the new data represent.Otherwise, it is clear that many promising research projects exist within UCLS andUCFS. On taxation, for example, Henry Ohlsson, Katarina Nordblom, and Per Engström,who all have worked on questions related to tax avoidance, tax evasion and attitudestowards taxes, have ongoing contacts with the Tax Analysis Unit of the Tax Authority onpossible cooperation projects coming years. On political economics, several futureprojects are on their way. In modern democracies a large part of the value of totalproduction is collected in taxes. These resources are in turn used for production of goodsand services as well as for direct transfers to individuals. For a comprehensiveunderstanding of how the economy works, it is then necessary to understand the politicalprocesses that determine the allocation of such a large part of the total resource. In theyears to come, the plan is to strengthen the department’s competence within this field.Among topics that are interesting to investigate are the role of elections as a discipliningdevice, the role of information in the voting process, and the determinants and the effectsof election turnout. These projects will be initiated by Eva Mörk and Mikael Elinder.Furthermore, Matz Dahlberg and Heléne Lundqvist will, in a joint project with OlleFolke at SIPA at Columbia University, examine the role of individual characteristics ofpoliticians for political success and for political decision-making. The project also studiesthe consequences for the individual politician of being elected, and in turn how suchconsequences influence the selection of politicians. The data for the project is unique inits kind; it includes rich information on background characteristics as well as detailedelected data on all candidates who have run for election into Swedish local councils aswell as the national parliament in the period 1991—2006.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>Within macroeconomics, the ambition is to have a continued focus on the microeconomicfoundations of macroeconomics, and specifically the dynamic behavior of firms. Bycontinuing both theoretical research, simulating quantitative macroeconomic models, andempirical research, using firm level data and matched worker-firm data, we will be ableto achieve a deeper understanding of the dynamics of wages, prices, production,employment etc. A large fraction of our graduate students are doing research in macroand there is a lot of demand for well-trained macroeconomists, but the macroeconomicresearch group has few senior researchers. There is a need to strengthen this group withsome more senior researchers.A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Olof Åslund and Per-Anders Edin (2011), “Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant StudentAchievement – Evidence from a Placement Policy”, forthcoming in American EconomicJournal: Applied Economics. (with Hans Grönqvist and Peter Fredriksson)Sören Blomquist and Luca Micheletto (2009), “Nonlinear Income Taxation and MatchingGrants in a Federation with Decentralized In-kind Transfers”, International EconomicReview 50, 543-575.Sören Blomquist and Luca Micheletto (2010), “Public Provision of Private Goods andNondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(2),1-27. (With Vidar Christiansen)Sören Blomquist and Håkan Selin (2010), “Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor IncomeResponsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates”, Journal of Public Economics 94, 878-889.Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk (2008), “Using a Discontinuous Grant Rule to Identify theEffect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending”, Journal of Public Economics 92, 2320-2335.(With Jørn Rattsø and Hanna Ågren)Bertil Holmlund (2007), “Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring andSanctions”, Economic Journal. (With Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson and Jan van Ours)Mikael Lindahl (2007), “The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged students onachievement”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(4), Pages 721-736. (With EdwinLeuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink)Henry Ohlsson (2009), “Compensatory inter vivos gifts”, Journal of Applied Econometrics,Vol 24, pp 993-1023. 2009. (With S Hochguertel.)2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Niklas Bengtsson, (2010), “How responsive is body weight to transitory income changes?Evidence from rural Tanzania”, Journal of Development Economics 92 (1), Pages 53-61.Per Johansson (2008), “ Dynamic Treatment Assignment -- The Consequences for<strong>Evaluation</strong>s using Observational Data”, Journal of Business and Economic and Statistics 26,435-445, 2008. (With Peter Fredriksson)Mikael Lindahl (2011), “The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’sSchooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods”, Forthcoming in Journal of EconomicLiterature. (With Helena Holmlund and Erik Plug)Laurant Simula (2010), “Optimal Income Tax under the Threat of Migration by Top-IncomeEarners”, Journal of Public Economics 94, 163-173. (With Alain Trannoy)A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Clarification: All publications should be registered in DiVA by Mar 1, 2011, to be available to the externalexperts and for the separate bibliometric analysis. In the case that a researcher has moved to Uppsala Universitywithin the last years, there could be vital publications contributing to the research but not registered in DiVA.A list of these publications from 2007-2010 could be added here (optional). This additional list will also beavailable to the external experts, and to the bibliometric analysis.In addition to the publications registered in DiVA, we would like to highlight thepublications by two of the department’s recent hires (Mikael Bask and DanielWaldenström), by the department’s adjunct professors (Eva Mörk and Olof Åslund) andby one of the departments professors whose publications are registered under the IFAUlabelin DiVA (Anders Forslund).Mikael BaskArticles in refereed journals:“Chartism and Exchange Rate Volatility”,.International Journal of Finance and Economics,12, 301-316, 2007.“The Stability of Electricity Prices: Estimation and Inference of the Lyapunov Exponents”,Physica A, 376, 565-572, 2007. (With T Liu and A Widerberg)“Adaptive Learning in an Expectational Difference Equation with Several Lags: Selectingamong Learnable REE”, European Financial Management, 14, 99-117, 2008.“Announcement Effects on Exchange Rates”, International Journal of Finance andEconomics, 14, 64-84, 2009.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>“Instrument Rules in Monetary Policy under Heterogeneity in Currency Trade”, Journal ofEconomics and Business, 61, 97-111, 2009.“Optimal Monetary Policy under Heterogeneity in Currency Trade”, Journal of FinancialEconomic Policy, 1, 338-354, 2009.“Fundamentals and Technical Trading: Behavior of Exchange Rates in the CEECs”, OpenEconomies Review, 20, 589-605, 2009. (With J Fidrmuc)“Robust Taylor Rules under Heterogeneity in Currency Trade”, International Economics andEconomic Policy, 6, 283-313, 2009. (With C Selander)“Market Structure and the Stability and Volatility of Electricity Prices”, Energy Economics,31, 278-288, 2009. (With A Widerberg)“Measuring Potential Market Risk”, Journal of Financial Stability, 6, 180-186, 2010.“Exchange Rate Volatility without the Contrivance of Fundamentals”, Forthcoming inFrontiers in Finance and Economics.“Market Power in the Expanding Nordic Power Market”, Forthcoming in Applied Economics.(With J Lundgren and N Rudholm)Anders ForslundArticles in refereed journals:“Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies”, Scandinavian Journal ofEconomics 110, 169-195, 2008. (With Nils Gottfries and Andreas Westermark)Books and chapter in books:Forslund, A & A Krueger (2010) “Did active labor market policies help Sweden reboundfrom the depression of the early 1990s?”, in Freeman, R, B Swedenborg & R Topel (ed),Reforming the welfare state. Recovery and beyond in Sweden, Chicago University PressCommissioned reports:Forslund, A & J Vikström (2010), “Arbetsmarknadspolitikens effekter på sysselsättning ocharbetslöshet – en översikt”, Bilaga 1 till Långtidsutredningen 2011.Forslund, A (2008), “Den svenska jämviktsarbetslösheten – en översikt”, Rapport tillFinanspolitiska Rådet 2008:4.Forslund A & Nordström Skans O (2007) ”Hur fungerar arbetsmarknaden - Och vad kanarbetsmarknadspolitiken bidra med?” Ura 2007:2, Arbetsmarknadsstyrelsen, StockholmEva MörkArticles in refereed journals:“Do Politicians’ Preferences Correspond to those of the Voters? An Investigation of PoliticalRepresentation”, Public Choice 130, 137-162, 2007. (With Hanna Ågren and Matz Dahlberg)2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>“On the Performance of the Sargan Test in the Presence of Measurement Errors in DynamicPanels”, Applied Economics Letters 15, 349-353, 2008. (With Matz Dahlberg and Per Tovmo)“Effects of decentralization on school resources”, Economics of Education Review 27, 276-284, 2008. (With Åsa Ahlin)“How far can reduced childcare prices push female labour supply?”, Labour Economics 15,647-659, 2008. (With Daniela Lundin and Björn Öckert)“Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending”Journal of Public Economics 92, 2320-2335, 2008. (With Matz Dahlberg, Jørn Rattsø andHanna Ågren).Books and chapter in books:Fattigdom i folkhemmet – Från socialbidrag till självförsörjning, Välfärdsrådets rapport2008, SNS. (With Matz Dahlberg, Karin Edmark and Jörgen Hansen).(2011) ”Från försörjningsstöd till arbet – Hur kan vägen underlättas?” , i Välfärdsstaten iarbete – Inkomsttrygghet och omfördelning med incitament till arbete, SOU 2011:2, Fritzes.SOU 2011:11, Långtidsutredningen 2011. Huvudbetänkande, FritzesOther academic publications:”Valår och den kommunala politiken”, Ekonomisk Debatt 5, 2008. (With Matz Dahlberg)”Aktivering av socialbidragstagare i Sverige”, Søkelys på arbeidslivet 2, 2008. (With MatzDahlberg)”Maxtaxan inom barnomsorgen – påverkar den hur mycket föräldrarna arbetar?”, EkonomiskDebatt 7, 2008. (With Daniela Lundin and Björn Öckert)"Effekter av barnomsorgsavgifter på barnafödandet" Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 37, nr 2, 2009.(With Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd)Daniel WaldenströmArticles in refereed journals:“Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes: A Structural Breaks Approach”, Review ofEconomics and Statistics, (with Jesper Roine), forthcoming 2011.“How Should Research Performance be Measured? Evidence from Rankings of SwedishEconomists”, The Manchester School, (with Magnus Henrekson), forthcoming 2011.“Why Does Sovereign Risk Differ for Domestic and External Debt? Evidence fromScandinavia, 1938–1948”, Journal of International Money and Finance 29(3), 387–402,2010.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>“The Long-Run Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?”,Journal of Public Economics 93(7–8), 974–988, (with Jesper Roine and Jonas Vlachos),2009.“Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006”, ScandinavianJournal of Economics, 111(1), 151–187 (with Jesper Roine), 2009.“Did Nordic Countries Recognize the Gathering Storm of World War II? Evidence from BondMarkets”, Explorations in Economic History 45(2), 107–126, (with Bruno S Frey), 2008.“The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society: Sweden, 1903–2004”, Journal ofPublic Economics 92(1–2), 366–387, (with Jesper Roine), 2008.“Using Financial Markets to Analyze History: The Case of the Second World War”,Historical Social Research 32(4), 330–350, (with Bruno S Frey), 2007.Chapters in books:“How Government Bond Yields Reflect Wartime Events: The Case of the Nordic Market”, inRobert W. Kolb (ed.), Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley& Sons, (with Bruno S. Frey), 2011.“How Important are the Political Costs of Domestic Default? Evidence from World War IIBond Markets”, in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default,Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.“Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century”, in Atkinson, A B, and Piketty, T(eds.), Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: Volume II, A Global Perspective, OxfordUniversity Press, (with Jesper Roine), 2010.“Introduction”, in: Edvinsson, R, Jacobson, T and Waldenström, D (eds.), HistoricalMonetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, vol. 1, Exchange rates, prices, and wages,1277–2008, Sveriges Riksbank and Ekerlids förlag, (with R Edvinsson and T Jacobson),2010.“Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings”, inDavies, J.B. (ed.), Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective, Oxford, Oxford UniversityPress, (with Henry Ohlsson and Jesper Roine), 2008.“Income Distribution in Sweden since 1990”, in K Glans and J Laurin (eds), Towards anHourglass Society? Income Differences and the Fate of the Middle Class, GlasshouseForum, Stockholm, 2008.Commissioned reports:”Den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i finanskrisens Sverige”, chapter 3 in Anxo D, R Forslid, JHassler, P Krusell, T Lindh and D Waldenström, SNS Konjunkturrådsrapport 2010: Rådtill en finansminister, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 2010.”Globalisering och inkomstfördelning” [Globalization and Income Inequality], Rapport nr.20, Globaliseringsrådet, Regeringskansliet, (with Jesper Roine), 2008.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong>Other academic publications:“Rörlig ersättning till vd – svar till Jan Wallander”, Ekonomisk Debatt 37(7), 62–63, (with JBång), 2009.“Rörlig ersättning till vd – vad säger forskningen?”, Ekonomisk Debatt 37(5), 41–56, (with JBång), 2009.“Why Should Inequality Researchers Care About the Rich?”, IFC Bulletin, No. 28, 421–427,2008.“Hur ska framtidens förmögenhetsstatistik se ut?”, Ekonomisk Debatt 35(8), 72–77, 2007.Olof ÅslundArticles in refereed journals:“How important is access to jobs? Old question-Improved answer”, Journal of EconomicGeography 10(3), 389–422, 2010. (With John Östh and Yves Zenou)“Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade off?”, Labour Economics 17(1),130–139, 2010. (With Hans Grönqvist)“Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985–2002”, Industrial andLabor Relations Review Vol. 63 Issue 3, 471–493, 2010. (With Oskar Nordström Skans)“Peer effects in welfare dependence—Quasi-experimental evidence”, Journal of HumanResources 44(3), 798-825, 2009. (With Peter Fredriksson)”How to measure segregation conditional on covariates”, Journal of Population Economics,22(4) 971–981, 2009. (With Oskar Nordström Skans)“Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings”,Economic Journal 117 (March) 422–448, 2007. (With Dan-Olof Rooth)Books:Segregationen i storstäderna, SNS Välfärdsrapport 2009, SNS Förlag, 108 pp, 2009. (WithOskar Nordström Skans)Other academic publications:”Påverkar bostadssegregationen flyktingbarns skolresultat?” Sökelys på arbeidslivet 3/09,379–388, 2009. (With Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist)”Anonyma jobbansökningar i praktiken - En första utvärdering av en debatterad åtgärd",Ekonomisk debatt nr 3 årgång 36, 36–45, 2008. (With Oskar Nordström Skans andKristina Sibbmark)”Är familjestorlek egentligen något att bry sig om?”, Ekonomisk Debatt. nr 8 årgång 35, 43–51, 2007. (With Hans Grönqvist)”Får utlandsfödda betalt för sin utbildning och sina kunskaper i svenska?”, Ekonomisk Debattnr 3 årgång 35, s 41-54, 2007. (With Dan-Olof Rooth)2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.In KoF07 the evaluators stressed two main actions for successful development; the firstrelated to recruitment, the other to foreign visitors at the department.Regarding recruitment, the evaluators mentioned two main <strong>aspects</strong>. First, they stressed theimportance of getting the positions of retiring full professors saved at the department. Herewe have saved the position after Jan Södersten at the department. We have also recruited aguest professor on full time for five years (Daniel Waldenström). Second, they stressed theimportance of increasing the length of appointments for postdoctoral fellows (from threeyears). This has happened. Since we started recruiting on the international job market in2008, the positions that we offer are 3+3 and 2+2. Our recruitment on the job market hasalso lead to a much more streamlined recruiting process at the postdoctoral level. It canalso be noted that the number of female postdoctoral fellows have increased during the lastyears. Within the international recruitment process, we have hired three women (two ofwhich are still at the department; Theodora Borota and Rita Ginja). In addition, UCFS hashired two female postdoctoral fellows (Andrea Mitrut and Katarina Nordblom).Regarding foreign visitors at the department, there has been a rather dramatic change since2007. Resources from e.g. UCFS and UCLS have made it possible to invite a largenumber of short-term foreign visitors at the department. Also the number of foreignvisitors staying at the department for a longer time-period (of at least three monthsduration) has increased. Since 2007 we have had 12 visiting researchers staying more thanthree months. Between 2003 and 2007, the corresponding figure was 2.Overall the department has been much more international since 2007. The recruitment onthe international job market, the increasing number of short- and longer-term foreignvisitors at the department and an increasing number of research visits abroad by our ownresearchers has made the research environment more international, with more internationalseminars and more international collaboration.2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 16<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsMikael Elinder, 32, 2008, The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize, awarded at The 64thCongress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Maastricht, Netherlands (withHenrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara).Mikael Elinder, 33, 2009, Myrdal Prize, for the best article in Ekonomisk Debatt [Journalof the Swedish Economic Association] (with Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara)Bertil Holmlund, 63, Söderbergska priset, 2011.A9. Additional sources of informationWebsite addresses:Department of Economics: www.nek.uu.seUppsala Center for Fiscal Studies: http://ucfs.nek.uu.se/Uppsala Center for Labor Studies: http://ucls.nek.uu.se/Institute for Housing and Urban Research: http://www.ibf.uu.se/index_eng.htmlInstitute for Labor Market Policy <strong>Evaluation</strong>: http://ifau.se/en/2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 17<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberNumber ofindividualscontributingPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 5 4Invited talks at international conferences 19 8Assignment in research councils and foundations 5 4Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 20 7positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 11 9Member of international scientific councils 1 1Member of academies and learned societies 15 6Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Hosting of conferences and workshops27 16B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 15Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 12Number of granted external funds for new projects 46Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 28Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 12Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 34Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific >300expeditions, field work etc.):Conference participation as author and/or discussant2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 18<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 3Popular science papers/books 41Textbooks 5Spin-off commercial companies 0Governmental/societal assignments 28Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents, 135popular science presentations etc.):Presentations at ministries, government agencies, labor market organizations2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 19<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (for general comments, see part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Economics v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of Education / Research discipline: EducationContact person: Prof. Ann-Carita EvaldssonA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.A1 i)More information of current research activities on: http://www.edu.uu.se/forskning/Studies in Higher Education – The SHE ProgrammeOne hundred years ago the first Swedish professor of Education, Bertil Hammer, UppsalaUniversity, articulated the mission for research in Education: Studies of (1) the goal ofeducation, (2) the process of education, and (3) education as a social and cultural phenomenon.These three directions of research guide the SHE programme. Curriculum theory frames theresearch, together with theories on professional development, comparative education,experienced based learning, organisational learning, student activity, and adult learning. Areasof application unite in an interest in Higher Education; its conditions, processes, outcomes, andinteraction with society. The projects deal with the education of e.g. schoolteachers, militaryofficers, medical doctors, nurses, dental hygienists, hippologists, underprivileged groups andteachers of HE. In one project the focus may be on recruitment issues and regionaldevelopment, in another on equality between the sexes, and in still another project it may be onthe transition from HE to working life.August 2010 the SHE programme and the Department of Education hosted the 24 th InternationalConference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE). The theme wasEnlightenment, Creativity, and Education: Polities, Politics, Performances. 120 delegates from29 countries, 12 non-European, from all five continents signed up. Some 100 papers werediscussed in 35 working group sessions. Two books are in preparation, edited by members ofthe SHE programme. Sponsors: National Research Council and the Bank of SwedenTercentenary Foundation. Research work is done in the following projects: (1) Providers ofEducation and Regional Developers? A Scandinavian Comparative Analysis of Regional StudyCentres: (2010-13), (2) Gender Equality and the Academy: When Desires and Choice Face,Hindrance, Opportunities, and Resistance (finalised 2009), (3) The Transition from TeacherTraining to School Work (2006-12), (4) In-service Training for Teachers of HE (start 2011),(5) The Role of Independent Work and Degree Projects in HE, (6) Experience Based Learningfor Peace-keeping and Non-traditional Military Work (finalised 2011), (7) Riding Teachers’Conceptions of and Conditions for Communication with Their Students (2007-09, 2011-13).2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPSTEP carries out research on educational policy, practices and research and their interplay.Empirically based theorizing is a cornerstone, and analytical tools from sociology and historyare used in curriculum research. Central is how concepts like equality and equity areestablished and re/produced and also how economic and cultural change and transfer betweenlevels are reflected in policy programs and educational practices. At present STEP is active inresearch projects on: assessment cultures, intelligence, reforms and economic change,governance and leadership, equity and gender policies, teacher formation, and ICT. Data frompreschool to higher education and research are included. STEP is involved in the nationalresearch school on educational history and member of several inter/national andmultidisciplinary networks focusing on: politics in education, curriculum research, educationalreforms in Europe, equity policies, leadership and superintendents. A number of new projectsare in process; some of them are co-projects with partners in international networks (see A2)and thus comparative on the Nordic and/or the European level.STEP is made up of doctoral students (6) and researchers (10 PhDs, including 1 professor and3 associate professors). In addition researchers from other universities (Gävle, Stockholm,Linné) participate on a regular basis in STEP activities. The seminars are devoted to productionand analyses of data and research texts, and the development of research applications andcourses. The supervision of doctoral students is integrated in the seminar activities, andcomplemented with individual support. STEP administers the website Educational PolicyInstitute and STEP e-journal. Both are in a stage of reconstruction.Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices, CLIP (formerELSIE)This research unit is directed to studies of childhood, learning and identities as socially situatedinteractional practices in relation to broader educational contexts and ideologies. The researchgroup has an explicit interest in the development of theory and method, and competencieswithin ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. A specific interest is inthe study of children’s, young people’s and adults’ (professionals, parents, etc.) agency,participation and rights. Central are how issues such as learning, identities (gender, class,ethnicity, language, age, disability, etc.), language and communicative practices are situated inand accomplished within and across informal and formal educational contexts. All projects arecarried out empirically using ethnography combined with video and audio-based research onstudies of talk-in-interaction across educational settings (from preschool settings to workplacestudies). Current ongoing externally funded collaborative projects (total 5), network (1) andnational research schools (total 2) focus on: interactive technologies, literacy, multilingualismand learning in childhood (LINT, LIMCUL, etc (total 5)); children’s bullying practices andschool based prevention programs (total 1), boys in special needs practices (total 2), youngchildren, globalization and literacy in preschool settings (total 1). The collaborations involveresearchers from Göteborg, Stockholm, Linköping, Jönköping, Mälardalen, Umeå and Malmö.CLIP assembles doctoral students (9) and senior and junior researchers (8, including oneprofessor) from Education, Child and Youth Studies, Language Studies, etc., meeting regularlyevery other Monday for a CLIP research seminar and data-workshops in an Interactionseminar. Primary missions and goals are dedicated to integrate doctorial training andpostdoctoral research in the seminars and other activities, promote analytic proficiency in basicempirical (mainly video based) research and encourage international publications. The websitefor the research unit CLIP are in a stage of reconstruction.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>A1 ii) The discipline of Education in Sweden has a tradition, which dates ca 100 yearsback. The first Swedish chair was established in 1907 – in Uppsala – through decision byGovernment. In a national research evaluation initiated by the Research Council for theHumanities and the Social Sciences in the 1990s the Uppsala Department of Educationwas observed to be strong in studies of the macro perspective on education. In KoF07 thepotentials of this macro perspective on educational policy – both within the Department ofEducation and between this department and the two sister departments – were beingpointed at, along with the strength of a micro perspective on learning as social practice.Integrating more of macro and micro perspectives on education was recommended. Today,the need for more and better ties between graduate and under graduate training, especiallyin relation to teacher education, is being stressed in evaluations and in national and localpolicy. The new Department of Education forms an important organisational frame forthis. However, other actions to improve the quality of the research of the discipline ofEducation are needed as well:• The financing from the Faculty of Educational Sciences needs to be brought at par with –at least – that of the Faculty of Social Sciences regarding doctoral positions, postdocpositions and/or junior lecture positions with substantial time for conducting research• Resources available need be directed towards a mix of doctoral positions and postdocpositions, and/or junior lecture positions (Sw. biträdande lektorat)• When the professorship after Ulf P Lundgren was not renewed following his retirement in2007/08, the Department faced a sizeable loss and this needs to be dealt with.• The chair in general Education after Ulla Riis will be maintained through a decision by theUniversity Board. Proactive recruitment activities ought to be commenced at once.A2 iii) The research at the new Department of Education, consisting of the former threedepartments and governed by the Faculty Board of Educational Sciences, has a commondenominator in an interest in the educational sciences and their applications within teachertraining, and training for paramedical professions and for administration of human resources.This gives a good framework for cooperation and integration of research activities within thenew Department and is one point of departure for the future. This new organisation foreducational research greatly improves the conditions for cooperation between research groupswithin the new Department of Education as well as cooperation and networking outside thisdepartment. It is not only a matter of organisation but also a matter of sharing a large andmodern building, well adapted to its purposes. The building Blåsenhus, inaugurated in March2010, is shared with the Department of Psychology, with the Division for Development ofTeaching, and the Uppsala Learning Lab and the highly modern facilities of the latter.Cooperation regarding the administration of and the curricula of the doctoral program includingjoint doctoral courses and co-supervising of doctoral students, the advanced seminar, a jointseminar in childhood and youth studies, and joint publications have been carried out incollaboration between the different research units, especially after the co-location at Blåsenhus.We also plan to formulate a joint research consortium across the research units within the newDepartment of Education, thereby establishing a common research agenda, coordinate ourdiverse international and national networks, and possibly apply for a centre of excellence (seeA 3). The research proposal made by the workgroup led by Ulf P. Lundgren “ForumPedagogikum” (Samfak 2009/24) constitutes an important platform for future cooperationacross the units within the new Department of Education.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPi) The main contribution of STEP research is to educational policy and philosophy, andeducation reform history. Special attention is paid to changes and consequences of theinteraction between policy, practice and research. Rich empirical studies focusing variouspedagogical phenomena are the basis of theoretical elaborations. Lately, many STEPprojects have developed knowledge on different forms of governance, leadership andsystems of evaluation and control, such as assessment, international tests, inspections andquality systems. Their part in the re/production of knowledge, practices and differentiationare highlighted. Curriculum theory and evaluation research are prominent international andSwedish research traditions, both further elaborated by STEP through participation ininter/national networks, projects, conferences, books and research reports, journal articlesand handbook chapters. In 2006 STEP initiated what became a biennial Nordic conferenceon Curriculum Theory.ii) International benchmarking references for STEP is the Curriculum Studies, EducationalLeadership and Governance (CLEG) at Oslo university and Nordic Institute for Studies inInnovation, Research and Education (NIFU) in Oslo, Norway, and research represented inthe Network on Educational Reforms in Europe - Historical and comparative studies onthe interplay between political governance, education professions and educationalsciences (ERECKS), with research groups from universities in Sweden, Finland, Norway,Germany, England, and Switzerland. Nationally relevant are also the research units onCurriculum Theory and Educational Reform, Linné University, Politics and Pedagogies(POP), Gothenburg University and the research units headed by professor Lisbeth Lundahl,Olof Johansson and Christina Segerholm respectively on evaluation, inspection, educationpolitics, governance and leadership at Umeå University. Education and democracy, ÖrebroUniversity is especially relevant in relation to both curriculum research and studies onsocial values. All of the mentioned research units are partners in ongoing networks andprojects in becoming. The latter make it possible to uphold and further develop knowledgein areas of special interest to STEP and its partners, especially in comparative educationand phenomena best analyzed through different disciplinary perspectives.Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices, CLIP (formerELSIE)i) The research group CLIP has recognized expertise in especially two (overlapping) areas: a)one covering the research on children’s peer-group interaction, language socialization andidentity-work. Theoretically this work is marked by a rich, agentive view on children in theireveryday activities. Moreover language is viewed as having a role in children’s culturalproduction. Detailed studies of talk-in-interaction based on longitudinal ethnographic work ofchildren’s everyday communicative practices are focused on to discern what childrenaccomplish socially, morally, linguistically, cognitively and emotionally in peer group andadult-child interaction. The second area covers b) micro-interactional research on learning,multimodality and interactive technologies. Theoretically this branch of research is marked by2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>a view of learning as social action in a material world. Detailed studies of interaction,comprising participants’ use of language, the body and material environment, are focused onprocesses of learning and knowledge production in situated activities in formal and informaleducational contexts. Situated activity system where children use various sort of technologiesin their everyday lives; in schools, after school activities and in homes are also of particularinterest. The research areas are part of growing international fields, in which researchers fromCLIP are participating (international conference panels, special issues, workshops andhandbooks).ii) Benchmarking institutions internationally for the research areas for CLIP (childhood,learning, identities as interactional practices) are the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction,and Culture (CLIC), which is training students and scholars in interdisciplinary theories andmethodologies for understanding the multiple uses of language in everyday life. The UCLACLIC has established a strong intellectual presence at the graduate level, attracting graduatestudents, but also visiting scholars from around the world. The head of the center is professorElinor Ochs. Four researchers from CLIP have been visiting researchers at the UCLA CLICduring the last period of years. We have also joint publications, e.g. special issues (2) withscholars from UCLA CLIC (professor M. H. Goodwin). Although our research group does notreach the standard of the UCLA CLIC, we strive to broaden our group interdisciplinary andcontacts with international scholars, our competencies in detailed ethnographic videobasedresearch and publications in international journals, focusing on language, culture, learning andinteraction. Visiting scholars, coming to Uppsala University 2011 are prof. Elisabeth Stokoe,prof. Charles Antaki (Dep. of Psychology, Loughborough University) and William Corsaro(Indiana University, USA). Other benchmarking institutions nationally are The LinnaeusCentre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in ContemporarySociety (LinCS), headed by professor Roger Säljö.The Uppsala research unit CLIP are partners in the ongoing project LINT - Learning,Interaction and the development of narrative knowing and remembering (LinCS,Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping, Department of Education, Uppsala andDepartment of Education in Mathematics and Science, Stockholm)http://www.ipkl.gu.se/english/Research/research_projects/linthttp://www2.ped.uu.se/research/projekt.aspx?action=visa&id=841 and Network for research onliteracy practices( Gothenburg, Uppsala, Örebro, Stockholm);http://www.did.uu.se/literacypractices/2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspectiveof 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of theseresearch directions would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. interms of proportion between different categories of researchers and other personnel.First we give hoped-for future directions for two of the research branches of the department.Second, we describe some new conditions, which we judge crucial for the furtherdevelopment of the new Department of Education as an entity.Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices, CLIP (formerELSIE)One promising direction for further development is the study of (1) children’s participation,identity-work, communicative practices and schooling, and (2) learning as social action andthe communicative practices that learners (adults and children) use to display their orientationto interactive technologies and literacy. National and international collaboration (see A2)provides a basis for elaboration of the research. Of particular importance is the increasingpossibility for exchange at all levels with the already established national and internationalnetwork in micro-interactional work on childhood, identities and learning. The nationallycoordinated networks and projects provide a central basis for strengthening and integratingresearch within the area of Childhood, learning and identities with Child and youth studies,Preschool Education and Didactics in our newly formed Department of Education. We plan tofurther strengthen and integrate internally oriented research and apply for joint researchprojects and possibly establish a research consortium with the department of Child and Youthstudies at Stockholm University with which we co-ordinate The National research school onGlobalization, literacy and childhood in preschoolhttp://www.buv.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=14439Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPSTEP was established 2000 and were following up a Swedish research tradition, which in theearlier evaluation from 2007, were pointed at as an important renewal. “However, the positionof policy orientated research at the macro level holds a weaker position in current Swedisheducational research. Thus the work of the group is important with regard to sustaining andfurther developing this important research area within educational studies.” (KoF 97 p. 140).The development of the historical and comparative perspective is in particular of importance.The politics of education and educational policies is here placed in longer time duration and invarious places, which open up for explaining the economical and cultural effects on and ofeducation. Especially important is also the interest in how educational policy, practice andresearch interact in the shaping of each other. The Swedish curriculum theory tradition wasformed in research analyzing the relationship between macro and micro phenomena. This isan area we need to reactivate. Another area of interest is how different forms of knowledgeare re/produced in curricula, pedagogy and assessment.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>The Department of Education and the futureA crucial precondition for the development of the new Department of Education and itsresearch is both breadth and specialization, mainstream and excellence. A relevant,internationally oriented and broad research base that covers the various scientific perspectivesand empirical fields inherent within the discipline of Education is necessary in order to supportthe more specialised and internationally oriented research branches. Differentiation andspecialisation, (as well as internationalisation and excellence) are general trends within theSwedish science of Education as such, and within the Swedish Research Council andfoundations in general as well as in educational politics. Hence, we wish for Universityfinancing that supports and opens up for a combination of basic research and specializedresearch. The need is felt at all levels of personnel (professors, lectures, junior lectures (Sw.biträdande lektorat), postdocs and doctoral positions). A better balance in this respect wouldstrengthen the research in Education, increasing the international publications and recruitingexternal funding.In a vision for the Faculty of Education a joint thematic research strategy that would bridge andintegrate the research competencies and interests of the different research units, combining fiveapproaches that are elaborated within the new department. The approaches are: (1) examinationof expectations, conditions, demands and content (knowledge, skills, values, taste.) ininstitutionalised educational activities and how these are created and transformed in politicsand in institutions; (2) examination of the competence (knowledge, skills, values, taste) that isneeded and used in society which the educational activity is trying to “prepare for”; (3)examination of the content (knowledge, skills, values, taste) and the processes of teaching,learning and socialisation in educational activities inside and outside the school curriculum; (4)examination of informal learning practices (knowledge, skills, values, language, identities,taste) and socialisation processes within different child and youth cultures and (5) examiningthe historical continuity and change within 1-4. At present this research strategy is discussedand elaborated and will be developed further during 2011/2012 (see also A1 iii).2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Evaldsson, Ann-Carita (2009). Play and games. In Jens Qvortrup, William Corsaro, Michael-Sebastian Honig & Gill Valentine, Handbook of Childhood Studies, Palgrave Macmillan.Forsberg, Eva. Ed. (2011). Curriculum Theory Revisited. Curriculum as content, pedagogyand evaluation. Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.Fransson, Göran & Gustafsson, Christina (Eds.) (2008). Newly Qualified Teachers inNorthern Europe – Comparative Perspectives on Promoting Professional Development.Teacher Education: Research Publications no 4. Gävle: Gävle University Press.Hernwall, P., Tingstad, V. & Aarsand, P. (Eds.) (2010). Child-Centred Perspective on DigitalPractices, Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, Special Issue 5(1).Melander, Helen & Sahlström, Fritjof (2009). Learning to fly. The progressive developmentof situation awareness. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 53(2), 151-166.Lindberg, Leif, Riis, Ulla & Silander, Charlotte (2011). Gender Equality in Swedish HigherEducation: Patterns and Shifts. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, vol xx, nox, 2011, pp xx. (in press)Lundgren, Ulf P. (2009). ”<strong>Evaluation</strong> and educational policy making”. In Ryan, K. E., &Cousins, J. B. (Eds). Sage international handbook on educational evaluation. ThousandOaks: Sage.A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Aarsand, P. and L. Forsberg (2010). “Producing children’s corporal privacy: ethnograficvideo recording as material-discursive practice.” Qualitative Research 10(2): 1-20.Francia G (publication planned in 2011) Dilemmas in the implementation of thechildren's right Equity in Education in the Swedish Compulsory School" (next issue in2011). Volume 10 Number 1 2011 of EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHJOURNAL (www.wwwords.eu/EERJ)Kyratzis, Amy Reynolds, Jennifer & Evaldsson Ann-Carita (2010). Heteroglossic practicesand Language Ideology in Children’s Peer Play Interactions. Special issue Introduction,Pragmatics, 20 (4): 457-466Lundahl, C. & Waldow, F. (2009). Standardisation and “quick languages”: The shape-shiftingof standardised measurement of pupil achievement in Sweden and Germany. ComparativeEducation, 45(3), 365-385.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Clarification: All publications should be registered in DiVA by Mar 1, 2011, to be available to the external experts andfor the separate bibliometric analysis. In the case that a researcher has moved to Uppsala University within the lastyears, there could be vital publications contributing to the research but not registered in DiVA.A list of these publications from 2007-2010 could be added here (optional). This additional list will also be available tothe external experts, and to the bibliometric analysis.Morten Nørholm, senior lecturer, beginning his employment at Uppsala UniversityJanuary 1st, 2011: Publications 2007-2010Undervisningsindustri påvirker offentlig uddannelsespolitik. / Nørholm, Morten. I: PraktiskeGrunde. 2010 ; Nr. 1-2, 01.01.2010. s. 170-174. Publikation: Forskning ›Kommentar/debatSanders lig på bordet : en politisk kommentar til ekstern finansiering af forskning påuniversitetet. / Nørholm, Morten. I: Praktiske Grunde. 2009 ; Nr. 1-2, 01.01.2009. s. 111-117. Publikation: Forskning › Kommentar/debatSelskabstømning i akademiet : om universitetsledelse og New Public Management, omeksploiteringen af en erkendelsesøkonomi, om Kant og Bourdieu. / Nørholm, Morten. I:Praktiske Grunde. 2009 ; Nr. 3, 01.01.2009. s. 31-52. Publikation: Forskning - peerreview › ArtikelOm den sociale og symbolske funktion af uddannelsesevalueringer : konstruktionen af etobjekt. / Nørholm, Morten. 2 udg. København : Forlaget Hexis, 2008. 334 s. Publikation:Forskning › Ph. d.-afhandlingOm evalueringsforskningens relative autonomi : dansk normal evalueringsforskning som etikke-autonomt (sub)felt i magtens felt. / Nørholm, Morten. I: Studier af pædagogiskpraksis : eksempler på brug af teori, metode og empiri. red. / Morten Nørholm ; KnudJensen ; Niels Rosendal Jensen. 1. udg. København : Danmarks PædagogiskeUniversitetsforlag, 2008. s. 131-160. Publikation: Forskning › Bidrag til videnskabeligbog/antologiOm uddannelsesevalueringers sociale og symbolske funktion. / Nørholm, Morten. I: At sættespor på en vandring fra Aquinas til Bourdieu. red. / Karin Anna Petersen ; MarianneHøyen. 1. udg. København : Forlaget Hexis, 2008. s. 339-359. Publikation: Forskning ›Bidrag til videnskabelig bog/antologiStudier af pædagogisk praksis : eksempler på brug af teori, metode og empiri. / Nørholm,Morten (Redaktør) ; Jensen, Knud (Redaktør) ; Jensen, Niels Rosendal (Redaktør). 1 udg.København : Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsforlag, 2008. 216 s. Publikation:Forskning › Videnskabelig antologiOm den sociale og symbolske funktion af uddannelsesevalueringer : konstruktionen af etobjekt. / Nørholm, Morten. 1. udg. København : Danmarks Pædagogiske UniversitetsForlag, 2007. 235 s. Publikation: Forskning › Ph. d.-afhandlingКакая связь между практической деятельностью человека и сопутствующим ейдискурсом? : Обсуждение статуса практической теории. / Nørholm, Morten ;Brinkkjær, Ulf. I: Ïðîôåññèè.doc : Ñîöèàëüíûå òðàíñôîðìàöèè ïðîôåññèîíàëèçìà: Âçãëÿäûñíàðóæè, âçãëÿäû èçíóòðè. red. / Åëåíà ßðñêàÿ-Ñìèðíîâà ; Ïàâåë Ðîìàíîâ. Moskva :«Variant» Ltd/Öåíòðà ñîöèàëüíîé ïîëèòèêè è ãåíäåðíûõ èññëåäîâàíèé Ñàðàòîâñêîãî2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>ãîñóäàðñòâåííîãî òåõíè÷åñêîãî óíèâåðñèòåòà, 2007. s. 11-29. Publikation: Forskning ›Bidrag til videnskabelig bog/antologiResearch Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPFlorian Waldow and Wieland Wermke are both co-researchers in an externally fundedresearch project on International tests, national assessment cultures and reform history(Forsberg, Eva). Books and articles with relevance for the project and a project on Educationreform and economic change (Lundgren Ulf P) are included.Waldow, F. (2007). Ökonomische Strukturzyklen und internationale Diskurskonjunkturen:Zur Entwicklung der schwedischen Bildungsprogrammatik, 1930-2000. Frankfurt amMain: Peter Lang.Waldow, F. (2008a). Awkward knowledge: The German delegation to the IEI. In M. Lawn(Ed.), An Atlantic crossing? The work of the International Examination Inquiry, itsresearchers, methods and influence (pp. 61-82). Oxford: Symposium Books.Waldow, F. (2008b). Utbildningspolitik, ekonomi och internationella utbildningstrender iSverige 1930-2000. Stockholm: Stockholms universitets förlag.Waldow, F. (2010b). Die internationale Konjunktur standardisierter Messungen vonSchülerleistung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts und ihr Niederschlag inDeutschland und Schweden. Forthcoming in Jahrbuch für Pädagogik, 21.Waldow, F. (2011). Juristen oder Testspezialisten? Zur Rolle von Experten bei derHerstellung von Notengerechtigkeit in Deutschland und Schweden. Forthcoming inZeitschrift für Pädagogik.Wermke, W. (2010), Continuing professional development in context. Teachers’ ContinuingProfessional Development Culture in Germany and Sweden. Professional Development inEducation.Wermke, W & Höstfält, G. (forthcoming). Bildungspolitik zwischen nationaler Politik undinternationalen Prozessen. Die schwedische Lehrerbildung und Bologna. Beiträge zurLehrerbildung.Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices, CLIPAssociate Professor Eva Hjörne, GU, co-researcher in an externally funded research projecton Boys in Special Needs Practices (A-C Evaldsson). Books and articles with relevance forthe project are included.Hjörne, E., Juhila, K. & Nijnatten, C. (2010) Negotiating dilemmas in street-level welfarework. International Journal of Social Welfare 19(3).Hjörne, E. (2010) Livet i en särskild undervisningsgrupp (20211 in press) i A-L ErikssonGustavsson, K. Göransson, &. C. Nilholm, (Eds) Specialpedagogisk verksamhet igrundskolan. Lund: Studentlitteratur.Hjörne, E. & Karlsson, Y. (2011 in press) Institutionellt minnande och skolproblem –Kategoriseringsprocesser och specialpedagogiska lösningar, in R. Säljö (Ed) Lärande ochminnande som sociala praktiker. (Norstedts)Hjörne, E., van der Aalsvoort, G. & d’Abreu, G. (Eds.) (2011 in press). Learning, socialinteraction and diversity – exploring school practices. Sense publisher.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>Hjörne, E. & Larsson, P. (2011 in press) “Beyond teaching and learning– regulating ‘slowlearners’ in remedial classes during the 1960’s in Sweden, in E. Hjörne, G. van derAalsvoort & G. d’Abreu (Eds) Learning, social interaction and diversity – exploringschool practices. Sense publisher.Hjörne, E., Larsson, P. & Säljö, R. (2010). From instructing pupils to coaching children:Social change and the broadening of responsibilities for the teacher profession. I V. Ellis,A. Edwards and P. Smagorinsky, Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Educationand Development : Learning Teaching. Oxford: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.Studies in Higher Education – The SHE ProgrammeYoshiko Asano, the Department of Human Development, Japan Women’s University, spent twoof her years (2007-09) as a doctoral student at the Department of Education conductingcomparative research on the Japanese and the Swedish preschool. After her degree at JapanWomen’s University, she returned to Uppsala as a postdoc for 1,5 year (2009-10).Asano, Y. (2009) The Importance of Education for Sustainable Development (EDS) in EarlyChildhood in Japan and in Sweden – An Epistemological Model of Five Aspects. JapanWomen’s University. [ 日 本 とスウェーデンにおける「 持 続 可 能 な 社 会 」を 目 指 す 幼 児 期 の「 環 境 教 育 の 意義 -つの 視 点 の 環 境 認 識 論 的 モデルを 通 して]Songül Kilimci, a guest researcher from Cucurova University, Turkey, spent her postdocat Uppsala University 2008-10 and joined the SHE Programme.1. Kilimci, S., (Ocak, 2010). "Integratıon of the Internet into a Language Curriculum in aMulticultural Society.", TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology,107-113, ISSN: 1303 – 6521 (SSCI)2. Kilimci, S. (2010). Comparative Analysis of Students’ Perceptions on Integration andDiscrimination Policy in Sweden. Eğitim Araştırmaları- Eurosian Journal of EducationalResearch, EJER, Fall 2010, 41, 133-149, ISSN: 1302-597X (SSCI)3. Kilimci, S. (2010). Teachers’ Perceptions on the Integration Policy in Sweden. Journal ofthe Internatıonal Society for Teacher Education (JISTE). USA. 14(2), 43-51.4. Kilimci, S. (2009). Teachers’ Perceptions on Corporal Punishment as a Method ofDiscipline in Elementary Schools. Uluslararası Sosyal Arastirmalar Dergisi / TheJournal of International Social Research, 2 (8), 242-251, ISSN: 1307-95815. Kilimci. S.; Karsli, M.D. (2008). Corporal Punishment in Schools. Journal ofInterdisciplinary Education. Nashville, Tennessee. USA. 8, ( 1), 164-173.6. Kilimci, S. (2009) Integration Policy in Sweden: How integrated are “the aliens”? WorldConference on Educational Sciences, Nicosia, North Cyprus, 4-7 February 2009 - NewTrends and Issues in Educational Science. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences,1(1), (pp.46-49). Elsevier ltd. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.0127. Kilimci, S. (2009) Teacher Training in Some EU Countries and Turkey: How similar arethey? World Conference on Educational Sciences, Nicosia, North Cyprus, 4-7 February2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>2009 - New Trends and Issues in Educational Science. Procedia - Social and BehavioralSciences, 1(1), (pp.1957-1963). Elsevier ltd. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.3478. Kilimci, S. (2009). İsveç’te Göçmen Türkler. /Turks in Sweden/ Hüsam. M. Murat Erdoğan(Ed.) Yurdışındaki Türkler: 50. Yılında Göç ve Uyum, Turks Abroad: Migration andIntegration in its 50 th Year, Türken im Ausland: 50 Jahre Migration und Integration.Orion Publication. (pp. 159-165). Ankara.9. Kilimci, S.; Gomleksiz, M.; Vural, A. (2008). The Effect of Discrimination on Peace andEducation. In S.F. Foo, C.M. Starlin (Eds.) Building a Culture of Peace for a CivilSociety. Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Education of the World Councilfor Curriculum & Instruction (pp.143-159). Worcester: Saltus.10. Kilimci, S. (2010). Teacher Education in Turkey: Reforms and Trends. In K. G. Karras –C.C. Wolhuter (Eds.) "International Handbook on Teachers EducationWorldwide: Training, Issues and Challenges for Teachers Profession". Volume II.Athens -Atrapos Editions 2010. (pp.553-570). ISBN: 978-960-459-090-2.11. Kilimci, S. (2009) Teacher Education in Sweden and Turkey. In N. Popov, C. Wolhuter,B. Leutwyler, M. Mihova, J. Ogunleye, Z. Bekiroğulları, (Eds.) Comparative Education,Teacher Training, Education Policy, Social Inclusion and Child Psychology. Volume 7,2009, (pp. 45-51). Bureau for Educational Services. Bulgaria: Sofia. ISBN: 978-964-9842-14-2.12. Turkoglu, A., Kilimci, S. (2009) A Brief Comparison of Four Education Systems. In N.Popov, C. Wolhuter, B. Leutwyler, M. Mihova, J. Ogunleye, Z. Bekiroğulları, (Eds.)Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, Social Inclusion and ChildPsychology. Volume 7, 2009, (pp. 39-45). Bureau for Educational Services Bulgaria:Sofia. ISBN: 978-964-9842-14-2.13. Gömleksiz, M., Kilimci, S., Vural, R. A., Demir, Ö., Koçoğlu-Melek, Ç., Erdal, E. (2008).Okul Bahçeleri Mercek Altında: Şiddet ve Çocuk Hakları Üzerine Nitel Bir Çalışma(School Yards under the Magnifying Glass: A Qualitative Study on Violence andChildren’s Rights) . Elementary Education Online. 7(2), (pp.273-287). ISSN : 1305-3515.http://ilkogretim-online.org.tr/vol7say2.html2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.Since the previous research assessment KoF07 in which the research group focusing onstudies on childhood, learning and identities as interactional practices, CLIP (former Elsie)was selected as one of the golden nuggets the group has strengthened and consolidated itsposition as a research group. Two junior lecturers with substantial resources for own researchhave been financed through a combination of external and internal funding from theuniversity. The two junior lecturers cover central research areas such as children’s interactivetechnologies and media, and learning and multimodality, with an interest in the developmentof theory and method, and competencies within ethnomethodology, conversation analysis anddiscourse analysis. Four doctoral students have been recruited through external funding (twoNational research schools LITERACIES, MULTILINGUALISM AND CULTURALPRACTICES IN PRESENT DAY SOCIETY- LIMCUL and Globalization, literacy andchildhood in Preschool, both focusing on young children and Literacy. The group has alsostrengthened its activities in regard to the international orientation that is visible both in thenetworking and publication activities, moving from in-house reports to publish more throughinternationally recognized publishers and academic journals. We’re working to bridge the gapbetween teaching and research primarily in relation to teacher education and preschooleducation. Strengthening national networks through the two national research schools withChild and Youth Studies at Stockholm University, and through the research project LINT,with Lincs at the University of Göteborg. The new Department of Education which consistsof the three departments governed by a common board and united by an interest ineducational sciences provides a good framework for future cooperation and integration ofresearch activities (Child and Youth studies, Special educational needs practices, preschooldidactics, Curriculum studies, Learning) within the new Department. A consolidation andintegration of Child and Youth research within the new department in a newly started seminaron Child and Youth studies integrating researchers from CLIP and lectures and a professor inthe area of Child and youth studies, encompassing research on children and youth acrosseducational settings using both macro and micro perspectives.In KoF07 STEP was characterised as a golden nugget. “The group has initiated a number ofexternally financed projects, it is highly productive and performing at an internationally highstandard. The group is led by a well established and internationally recognized professor. Thetheoretical and methodological profile of the group is well defined and coherent.” Theevaluation ended with statements on the importance to further support the research of STEP.However no additional resources were given to STEP research and when the research leaderprofessor Ulf P Lundgren retired the chair was closed in 2009. Since 2011 the unit is lead byUlf P Lundgren together with Eva Forsberg, associated professor and senior lecturer at thedepartment. In several ways STEP has strengthened its position in comparison to 2006. Threemembers have become associated professors and four doctoral students have completed theirdissertations, and today three of them are lecturers at the new department. However the groupis primarily dependent on external funding for recruitment of doctoral students and researchopportunities for junior researchers. In order to further develop research in STEP there is aneed to increase the number of doctoral students, and to create junior lecturer positions and2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong>through a chair in educational policy especially then curriculum theory secure the long termscientific leadership. Despite the lack of additional resources STEP has managed to succeedin obtaining external funds for projects, research fellowship, and networks. In addition STEPcontributes in the development and teaching of courses in teacher education and masterprograms on leadership, and postgraduate courses in education.A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsResearch Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPPrices:Pettersson, Daniel: The yearly award of Skolporten for one out of four best Swedisheducational dissertations 2008. (Pettersson, Daniel. (2008). International knowledgeassessments: an element of national educational steering. Uppsala University.Wermke, Wieland: Symposiums Book Price 2010 awarded by the International ProfessionalDevelopment Association (IPDA)A9. Additional sources of informationThe Department of Education (Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik ochutbildningsstudier) has decided to produce three evaluation <strong>document</strong>s for KoF, one fromeach of the three departments that merged into one on January 1 2011 (Department ofCurriculum Studies, Department of Education and Department of Studies in Education,Culture and Media). It is found at the website: http://www.edu.uu.se/. Information ofcurrent research activities on: http://www.edu.uu.se/forskning/This strategy makes it possible for us to compare the situation today with the results fromKoF07, and it makes it possible for us to present the research in the three units for eachother in the new department. The latter is important in order to find differences andsimilarities in order to be able to find new and fruitful collaborations with each other.However, when it comes to the presentation of publications that can be found in part C,this ambition has not been possible to maintain. Information that has been added to thedatabase DIVA after January 1 2011 is now presented under the new Department’s name,even though these publications may have been published before that. This means thatsome of the publications now listed under Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik ochutbildningsstudier (The Department of Education) may have been published when theirauthors were active at one of the old departments.As said, it has been important for the department to produce three evaluation <strong>document</strong>s inorder to be able to compare and find new forms for cooperation, but it may also beconfusing for the panel and we welcome questions and comments on this at the visit inMay.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong>Some further comments on ongoing collaborations within the new Department.Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy, STEPEva Forsberg participates in an ongoing, externally funded (VR), project on leadership (2011-2013) headed by associate professor and director Lars Svedberg at the Centre for EducationalManagement at Uppsala University – a collaboration partly based in the co-localization inBlåsenhus.Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactional Practices, CLIP (formerELSIE)The national Research School for preschool teachers involves collaboration between theresearch disciplines of Education (Prof. Ann-Carita Evaldsson) and Curriculum Studies (Prof.Caroline Liberg)Opportunities for collaboration are also manifested in a common history between the membersof the three former departments. A number of lecturers in the former departments ofCurriculum studies and of Studies in Education, Culture and Media have a PhD in Educationand were as doctoral students employed at the “old” Department of Education. The same is truefor Hans Nytell, the director of Continuing Professional Development and Internationalization.Both Hans Nytell and Maria Folke (former a lecturer at the department of Curriculum studies)are members of STEP and participate in projects, networks and publications. This is similar forKatrina Gustafsson (former a lecturer at the department of Studies in Education, Culture andMedia), who is a member of CLIP.2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 16<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 6 5Invited talks at international conferences 62 12Assignment in research councils and foundations 9 4Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 41 8positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 20 8Member of international scientific councils 0 0Member of academies and learned societies 17 6Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):94Number ofindividualscontributing22• Referee assignments for scientific journals• Organiser of international conferences and workshops• Expert assignments by national agencies and/or otheruniversities• Member of examining committees for doctoral degrees,opponent ditto• Member of faculty board at other Swedish university• Deputy chair of research group• Lectures at other universities inside and outside Sweden• Miscellaneous items26511431113244261132B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 4Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 3Number of granted external funds for new projects 23Other, specify:7………………………………2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 17<strong>KoF11</strong>B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 6Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 5Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 25Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific 37expeditions, field work etc.):• Mentor and/or host of invited international researchers• Member of organising committees of international conferences (see alsoB1)• Cooperation with:o Humboldt Universität, Berlino Olso Universityo Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research andEducationo Japan Women’s Universityo Yokohama City Universityo Beijing Normal Universityo Cucurova University, Turkey• Miscellaneous items94718B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 3Popular science papers/books 32Textbooks 15Spin-off commercial companies 1Governmental/societal assignments 24Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents, 32-37popular science presentations etc.):• Director of Regional Research and <strong>Evaluation</strong> unit of a Swedish county• Research counsellor for a regional project in the county of Oppland inNorway•Invited presentations at schools, state agencies and local and nationalpolitical institutions in Sweden and Norway• Member of associations and societies for educational purposes• Miscellaneous items1125-30322011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

Uppsala University 18<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).We were initially somewhat sceptical about the statistics, especially those on personnel.We found, e.g., that the department had zero (0) promoted professors, but that 50 percentof the promoted professors were female and that the average age of the promotedprofessors was 63 years. It has been explained by the secretariat of <strong>KoF11</strong> that in the firstcase FTE are relevant (0,3 = 0,0) but in the second case persons count.Further, the number of doctoral students is set at 9, while the real number is 15. Thenumber 15 is the number of doctoral students being both financed and active. In all, thedepartment lists 94 doctoral students, of which financed and active: 15; of which notfinanced but active: 20; and of which 59 at present are considered not active. However, thenon-active cannot be dismissed and they are entitled to take up their studies at any time.We have also noted that the number of doctoral exams in 2010 is given at one (1). The realnumber is three (3).2011-02-28 Dept of Education v 1.0

1KoF 11 – Department of Sociology<strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> of researchA1-i: Summary of current research activitiesAs Sweden’s oldest department of sociology, The Department of Sociology at UppsalaUniversity has a longstanding tradition of research in this discipline. Our department runs alsoone of the largest doctorate programs in our country; a program that has been deemed to beamongst the best in the latest evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education. It isagainst this backdrop – and on the basis of a comprehensive inventory of research activities weundertook for the purpose of this evaluation – that this presentation is written. Henceforth is asummary of current activities which is based on the inventory in question and reads thereforeconsiderably different than our previous KoF-report which departed solely from our professors’research. Of interest is perhaps that the evaluators will receive a copy of this inventory whenthey visit us in May. Our department’s research environment can be best described by alluding tothe 110 projects which have been running between the KoF-period (i.e. 2007-2010). Theseprojects can be grouped into four themes. These are: 1) social positions and their intersections; 2)critical studies on culture, policy and practice; 3) social, systems and institutional interaction and4) sociology and its intellectuals. The vast majority of our research belongs to the first threethemes; 106 out of 110 to be exact. Hence that we hereby focus on the first three themes.The theme of social positions and their intersections encompass projects that focus onclass, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, religion and disability as well as their intersections. Ourdepartment’s longstanding tradition of having Chairs with specializations in gender, socialgerontology and disability as well as a growing interest on research on children and youth amongstaff has contributed to making this theme the largest in our department. According to theinventory mentioned earlier, a total of 44 projects on social positions and their intersections havebeen running during this KoF-period (24 of them are projects that have been or are externallyfunded). Irrespective of which social position these projects focus on it is clear that aproblematizing theoretical edge characterizes all of these endeavors. They all aim, in one way oranother, to contribute to expanding sociology’s understanding of how social positions – and theirintersections – affect our daily lives. These 44 projects have generated a total of 133publications, 169 invited talks at conferences and 74 lectures for practitioners and policymakers 1 . The theme of critical studies on culture, policy and practice is the second largestresearch stream. Some of these projects focus on the study of cultural practices and could be bestdescribed as studies that depart from cultural sociology. Within this theme there is also a streamof research that aims to problematize the assumptions that guide policy at different levels andfocus on different target groups. Last but not least, this theme includes critical studies of practicein different sectors such as, for example, schools, social care services of different kinds andelderly care to name a few. Our inventory shows that a total of 38 projects are being conducted at1 Do note that the publications hereby listed are based on what these projects have generated since they werelaunched. This means that in the inventory we have compiled for KoF 11 some projects list dissemination outputsfrom years prior to 2007. The figures are also based on what the projects have generated as a whole so not all of thedissemination outputs hereby alluded to are outputs authored by our staff per se. There is therefore a discrepancybetween the publications listed by our tenure staff in DIVA (as retrieved for the purpose of this evaluation) and theones that we allude to here which are based on projects that our staff (even the affiliated staff) have been involvedin.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

2present under this heading (18 of them have been or are externally funded). These 38 projectshave generated a total of 61 publications, 38 invited talks at conferences and 9 lectures forpractitioners and policy makers.Projects whose main focus of attention is interaction have been grouped under theheading of social, systems and institutional interaction. Both micro and macro interaction isstudied within the realm of this theme; a theme that is anchored in the longstanding tradition ofresearch in social psychology that we have had in our department but expands it to include moremacro-oriented approaches to interaction. Some of these projects focus on the conditions forinteraction that different settings and/or systems impose while others focus on the manner inwhich different actors handle these conditions. Our inventory shows that a total of 24 projectshave been running under this heading during this KoF-period (11 of them have been or areexternally funded). These 24 projects have generated a total of 69 publications and 72 invitedtalks at conferences.When summarizing our research activities it seems also important to mention that ourdepartment’s research environment is characterized by a very lively and intellectuallystimulating seminar culture. Besides the seminar we call ‘the Higher Seminar’ which is theseminar that hosts, among others, our doctoral students’ half-way and final seminars, there aresix different seminar groups that meet regularly. These seminar groups focus on sociologicaltheory, gender, migration and ethnic relations, social psychology, sociology of religion anddisability. A total of 200 seminars have been hosted by them during this period besides the 10-12seminars a year that are hosted by the Higher Seminar. All of these seminars attract researchersfrom outside of our department who chose to either participate or present their work in ourenvironment because of the engaged discussions that take place in them (43 papers authored byresearchers from other universities have been presented between 2007-2010).A1-ii: List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research and obstaclesthat hinder improvementDescribing how we could improve the quality of our research requires that we take intoconsideration the main obstacles that hinder our research environment from flourishing evenfurther. The obstacles we face are primarily structural. We agree therefore with KoF 07evaluators’ assertion that “personnel composition is the most serious obstacle to researchdevelopment in this department”. Most of our staff is, as they also pointed out, “formally allowedto allocate 20% and in practice as little as 10% to research (and this) is not sufficient even forefficient acquisition of external funding”. We are therefore not only understaffed as far as ourundergraduate commitments are concerned, we have also very little time allocated for research.Hence that one of the things we have prioritized over the past two year is the recruitment of staff.At the end of 2010 we recruited, for example, two senior lecturers as well as the Chair in SocialGerontology after the previous Chair-holder retired. We have also started the recruitment processfor another four senior lecturers as well as two professors (one in general sociology and the Chairin Disability which became vacant once the previous Chair-holder retired a few months ago).Our staff composition will change dramatically in the next few years. This is all in accordancewith the changes suggested in the previous KoF. Thus, although we are in the midst of renewingpersonnel composition, it is important that we keep in mind that our department has beenunderstaffed during this KoF period. It is against this backdrop that we would argue that ourdepartment is in fact producing not only high-quality research but also dissemination outputs thatgo well beyond what could be expected under the structural conditions in which we have been2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

3working. Thus, although we agree with the assessment that KoF 07 evaluators made when theysuggested that our research environment would improve if we were to “rethink (our) teachingstructures and curriculum, eliminate redundancies, invest in renewing personnel composition,back up ambitious high quality research activities and ensure reasonable career prospects toyoung and mid-career academics”, we propose that the biggest hinder to improving the quality ofour research and the volume of our project’s dissemination outputs lies in the fact that a marginalpercentage of our time (and here we are referring to those with tenure positions) is in factallocated to research. Research quotas per staff need to be increased if we are to exploit ourresearch potential to the fullest.We have, however, since the last KoF-evaluation began a series of pedagogicdevelopment projects designed to address the redundancies in teaching load that exist in ourdepartment. In addition to this we have identified the areas of research that we should focus onand are in the midst of planning for ways to improve these. We propose therefore that one of thethings that would improve our research environment would be if we were to be given theresources necessary to announce research-intensive time-limited positions for mid-careeracademics (with an opportunity for tenure after a trial-period; so called ‘biträdande lektorat’ inSwedish) in the areas of research that we would like to strengthen; namely research on theintersection of social positions (particularly class and age, gender and age as well as disabilityand age), research on policy and practice as well as research on institutional interaction. Theseareas seem namely like the most fruitful if we are to expand on the high quality research wealready have. In addition, we think it would be useful if we were to create a position as researchcoordinator since the comprehensive inventory we have conducted for this evaluation clearlyshows that there is a lot of unexploited potential for synergy between our projects; synergies thatwe are unable to address because we are understaffed at the moment.A1-iii: Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the present organizationalplacement within Uppsala UniversityA look at the data we have gathered through our inventory shows that 42 out of the 110 projectsthat have been running during this period have involved collaboration across disciplinaryboundaries. Our research projects include collaborations with researchers in the fields of socialwork, education, psychology, political science, culture geography and medicine to name a few.Our seminars tend also to be quite multidisciplinary. A vast majority of the researchers fromoutside our department that participate and/or present at them have, in fact, other disciplinarybackgrounds besides sociology. A quick glance at the information our staff has provided withinthe realm of the inventory we have conducted for this KoF shows also that we present ourresearch at international conferences in other disciplines. The same holds true for the researchnetworks in which we are involved and for the editorial board to which we belong. Last but notleast it seems appropriate to point out that we collaborate with SCAS (the Swedish Collegium forAdvance Studies) since one of our researchers is working from that center at the moment andtake also part in the various seminars that are organized by SALT (Forum for Advanced Studiesin Arts, Languages and Theology). Not all of the research activities in which we are involvedare, in short, activities confined to the sociological community. Our research has namelyrelevance for other fields which is why it is informed by other disciplines as well. This does notmean, however, that we would like our department to belong to another faculty within our2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

4university. We are pleased with the present organizational placement we have and see no reasonto change this.A2-i: Describe current, particularly successful activitiesAs sociologists we are acutely aware of the fact that the academic construction of whatsuccessful entails differs greatly not only between disciplines but also through history. Hencethat we will hereby describe our success on the basis of some of the different perspectives on“particularly successful activities” that one could depart from. If success is to be defined by themanner in which our work has contributed to problematizing different taken-for-grantedassumptions in research, policy and practice then we would list our research on disability, agingand gender as particularly successful since research in these areas has been groundbreaking innumerous ways. The research we conduct on disability and the way in which this social positionintersects with other social positions such as gender and age is recognized across Nordiccountries as research that has paved the way for a new understanding of disability. The same canbe said of our research on children and youth which have cast innovative light on young age as asocial position. Of particular interest is the research we conduct on economically deprivedchildren since that work has raised national awareness amongst practitioners and policy makers’who work with this vulnerable group. Our research on aging and old age, and the theorydevelopment within social gerontology that this research has contributed to, is also worthmentioning as groundbreaking. The theory of gerotranscendence – which was formulated at ourdepartment - is, for example, recognized world-wide as a paradigm shift in the way in whichaging is understood. The social gerontological research we conduct on ethnicity, culture andmigration is also well-established at a European level as the section on prizes and awards willattest to. Our research on gender in general, and gender violence in particular, must also bementioned when we list particularly successful activities since that research has put ourdepartment on the map of Nordic feminist sociology. The same holds true for the research onmasculinities that we conduct. One of our professors is one of the world’s leading figures in thisarea. Last but not least we would like to mention the longstanding tradition of research in socialpsychology we conduct. Of particular interest is the international conference on Jane Adams werecently hosted at our department; a conference that was sponsored by some of Sweden’s largestand most prestigious funding bodies and one that brought together scholars from around theworld to discuss social entrepreneurship.The fact that we have – during this KoF period - given 38 plenary or keynote addresses atinternational conferences and 181 invited talks could also be listed as a sign of success. This isespecially so considering that our resources for participation in these activities are extremelylimited. The fact that our staff has a total of 31 assignments in editorial boards for peer-reviewedjournals must be understood against this backdrop. It is namely relatively difficult to increasethis kind of participation when resources that promote international exposure are so scarce.Against this backdrop and considering that we only have 14 members of staff with tenure, it is infact rather impressive that we are involved in that many editorial boards. Of interest here is alsothat one of our professors is the Editor-in-Chief for Sociologisk Forskning – which is the nationalpeer-reviewed journal in sociology – while one of our Chairs is Associate Editor of theInternational Journal of Aging and Later Life; which is the first open-access international peerreviewjournal. The latter sits also on the editorial boards of Ethnicity and Health which is thehighest ranked journal on Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report 2010 on ethnic relations, the2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

5Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences which is ranked as six out of 24 on the gerontology andgeriatrics list as well as Social Policy and Society; the International Journal of QualitativeMethodology and Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift. Another professor sits on the boards of Sociologywhich is ranked as 18 out of the 114 journals that are listed in the above mentioned report forsociology as well as on the boards of Food, Culture and Society, Senses and Society and theJournal of Consumer Research while another one sits on the board of the Journal ofSociocybernetics as well as Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Yet another one of our professorssits on the editorial board of Men and Masculinities and on NORMA (i.e. the Nordic Journal ofMasculinity Studies). One of our emeritus is Associate Editor for Women’s Health and UrbanLife, International Journal of Sociology of the Family and Journal of Comparative FamilyStudies and sits also on the editorial board of Journal of Family History. In addition our staff sitson the editorial boards of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, Max Weber Studiesas well as Sociologisk Forskning. Our staff is, in other words, well-represented in editorialboards for international peer-reviewed journals. Their editorial board commitments include someof the most prestigious journals in their areas of expertise.If success is to be described in terms of our capacity to secure external funding then itwould be necessary to mention that 53 out of the 110 projects that we have been running duringthis period have had external funding; 25 of them have had the kind of funding that is the mostcoveted in the social sciences in Sweden, i.e. funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR),the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond(RJ) or from EU. A look at the specific research streams that have been the most successful insecuring this type of funding shows that within the context of the theme on social positions andinteraction it is research on age and gender that have been the most successful. Within the themeof culture, policy and practice, it is research on policy and practice that shows the highest successas far as external grants are concerned while social and institutional interaction are the streamswithin the theme of social, systems and institutional interaction that have generated most externalfunding. Thus, although we would like to increase the number of external grants we attract we dothink it is particularly successful that we have been able to secure that many considering howlittle research time it is allotted to our staff not to mentioned how understaffed we are.A2-ii List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are considered suitable forbenchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2-i) and state the department’s view onits own standingListing institutions or groups that are suitable for benchmarking is not an easy task since avariety of factors must be taken into account before suitability can be established. Teachingloads, the allotment of research time, the way in which the academic ladder works, the type ofexternal funding that is available and the structural conditions that the university’s ownorganization dictates are all examples of factors that determine, to a certain extent, a researchenvironment’s capacity for growth. Getting inside information into these structural conditions isnot easy. The search for suitable benchmarking institutions we conducted on the internet proved,for example, rather fruitless since department’s homepages describe the achievements ofresearch environments at length but give very little information about the conditions that allowfor those achievements to be attained. Our search for potential benchmarking sources fromamongst the institutions with which we collaborate did not generate much either since none ofour collaborators were in departments that had the kind of wealth of research themes thatcharacterize our research environment. Hence that we have deemed it necessary to address this2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

6query by acknowledging some of the limitations inherent to the very exercise that formulatingthe requested list entails. We do not namely think we have the data needed to be able to addressboth of the issues this query is about (i.e. listing institutions suitable for benchmarking as well asmaking a reasonable statement about our department’s own standing in relation to them).A3: Describe the most promising research direction for the department in a perspective of 5-10years. Give an account of how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of these researchdirections would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. in terms of proportionbetween different categories of researchers and other personnelDescribing the most promising research direction for our department in a perspective of 5-10years is relatively easy now that we have conducted the comprehensive inventory of our researchactive staff’s activities and know in detail where our strengths and weaknesses lay. Theinformation we have collected clearly shows that the research theme on social positions and theirintersections and the one on critical studies on policy, culture and practice (particularly the angleon policy and practice) are the ones that have generated most dissemination outputs over theyears. Internationally speaking it is our research on age and our research on gender as well as theresearch we conduct on policy and practice as it relates to welfare in childhood and old age thathas put us on the map so to speak. It is also rather clear that these are the research streams thatare the most productive as far as the generation of publications and external funding isconcerned. Hence that the most promising research direction for our department would be tobuild on what we are already particularly successful at.An assessment of our strengths and weaknesses as far as research themes are concernedshows, however, that would be particularly promising to focus on developing our research ongender to address old age since the focus at the moment lays on children and youth. In the samemanner it seems fruitful to invest in a synergy between the social position of disability and thesocial position of old age since international social gerontological research has just started toaddress this intersection and our department – which has two Chairs in these areas – isparticularly well-equipped to explore this intersection. Our research on childhood could developits awareness of disability and ethnicity further and the social positions that remain, comparativespeaking, underdeveloped within our environment (class and sexuality) should be focus on moreclosely over the next 5-10 years. The latter holds true for research on old age as well for neitherclass nor sexuality have been addressed by our colleagues specializing in social gerontology.There is, in other words, a lot of potential embedded in utilizing our expertise on social positionsand their intersections to either further develop the social positions we have most solid expertiseon (i.e. age and gender) or focus on the ones we have explored the least (i.e. class, disability andsexuality).In terms of synergies between research themes it seems also rather clear that using thelife-course as point of departure for future research endeavors would be particularly promisingsince this will allow us to combine our research on social positions with our research on policyand practice in a theoretically-profuse way. Exploring, for example, how welfare institutions ofparticular relevance to different stages of the life-course (such as school for children, the labormarket for young adults and elderly care for older people) create and impinge on opportunitiesacross the life-course seems like a particularly promising direction for our research as is thestudy of the manner in which different social positions determine how our life-course unravels.Of particular interest here is the fact that we are particularly strong in research on schools and2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

7elderly care but could develop our research on labor market in order to address the pre-retirementlife-course stage.Having stated some of the areas that constitute promising research directions for ourfuture it is now time to address how these directions could be addressed. The creation of midcareerpositions specifically tailored to explore the social positions we have the least expertise onseem like a fruitful way of attaining this goal especially since we have some recent graduateswho have expertise in these areas. Stating that we are seeking specific research expertise whenrecruiting staff in the near future seem also like a fruitful way to go and this could entail both, therecruitment of doctoral candidates specializing in the areas of research we would like to expandon as well as the recruitment of senior staff with such expertise. The former seems particularlyattractive since doctoral candidates can easily be integrated into already existing researchactivities. Another cost-effective way of attaining the goals heretofore stated would be toincrease the research time allotted to senior staff that is particularly well-establishedinternationally speaking (who are also the ones that are most productive dissemination-wise).This seems like a particularly wise strategy especially if we were to combine this with an explicitdemand that their research activities should aim to create the synergies mentioned and/or launchprojects on the areas we have identified as particularly promising. It is, after all, this staff that isthe best equipped to secure grants at the European level; a level of funding we have not properlytapped into yet.A4: Select and present a list of publications – or rather research outputs – representing theresearch activity at the department (Max. of 8)1) Barron, K. (2009). Maktmedveten omsorg och socialt arbete. I E. Gunnarsson & M.Szebehely (ed.). Genus i omsorgens vardag. Stockholm: Gothia förlag2) Eriksson, M. (ed.) (2008). Barns röster om våld: Att tolka och förstå. Malmö: Gleerups3) Flood, M; Gardiner, JK; Pease, B. & Pringle, K. (2007). International Encyclopedia ofMen and Masculinities. Routledge.4) Hammarström, G. & Torres, S. (2010).Being, feeling and acting: A qualitative study ofSwedish home-help care recipients' understandings of dependence and independence.Journal of Aging Studies, 24(2), 75-87.5) Hugemark, A. & Roman, C. (2007). Diversity and Division in the Swedish disabilitymovement. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 9(1): 26-45.6) Michailakis, D. & Schirmer, W. (2010). Agents of their health?: How the Swedishwelfare state introduces expectations of individual responsibility. Sociology of Healthand Illnes,32(6), 930-947.7) Misheva, V. (2008). Shame and Guilt as Master Emotions and the Body-Mind Problem.Schuld und Scham Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.8) Pringle, K. (2010). Comparative Studies of Well-Being in Terms of Gender, Ethnicityand the concept of ‘Bodily Citizenship’: Turning Esping-Andersen on His Head?. In E.Oleksye, J. Hearn & D. Golandska (ed.). The Limits of Gendered Citizenship: contextsand complexities. New York: Taylor & Francis2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

8A5: Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representing renewalof research activity at the department (max 4)1) Corte, U. & Edwards, B. (2008) White Power Music and the Mobilization of RacistSocial Movements. Music and Arts in Action, 1(1), 4-20.2) Egeberg Holmgren , L. & Hearn, J. (2009). Framing 'men in feminism': theoreticallocations, local contexts and practical passings in men's gender-conscious positionings ongender equality and feminism. Journal of Gender Studies, 18(4): 403-418.3) Holmberg, T. & Ideland, M. (2010). Secrets and lies: 'selective openness' in animalexperimentation. Public Understanding of Science. OnlineFirst, published on August 26,2010 as doi:10.1177/09636625103725844) Lundström, C. (2010). “Concrete bodies": young Latina women transgressing theboundaries of race and class in white inner-city Stockholm. Gender, Place and Culture:A Journal of Feminist Geography, 17(2), 151-167.A6: Present a list of publications not included in the DIVA database (as of the date in which thethe extraction of data was conducted; i.e. at the end of 2010)1) Dahlkild-Öhman, G., (2007). Handlar det om kön? - Mäns positioner, manlighet ochmakt i tre professionella arbetsgrupper. Paper presenterat vid den internationellaforskningskonferensen Past Present Future i Umeå, 14 - 17 juni 2007.2) Dahlkild-Öhman, G., (2008). Sociologiska perspektiv på radikalt lärande i arbetet - finnsde? Paper presenterat på Sveriges Sociologförbunds årsmöteskonferens i Östersund, 31januari - 1 februari 2008.3) Dahlkild-Öhman, G., (2009). Radical learning at work? - Professional learning processesin the field of men´s violence to women. Paper presented at the international conference:Challenging Education in Uppsala, June 14 - 16, 2009.4) Fernqvist, S. & Näsman, E., (2006). Economic hardship in childhood Children’s agencyin processes concerning families with scarce resources. Paper presented at conferenceChildren’s welfare in Ageing Europe.- Challenges and Opportunities,Roskilde June 16-17, 2006.5) Fernqvist, S., Näsman, E., & von Gerber, C., (2007). Exclusion due to economichardship, Exclusion or inclusion at school as consequence of economic hardship inchildhood . CiCe conference, Montpellier May 23-26 2007.6) Gronow, J., (2005). Roolileikki ja itsensä esittäminen. Modernin kaupunginpuolijulkisuus. (Arvostelu teoksesta Pasi Mäenpää: Narkissos kaupungissa: tutkimuskuluttaja-kaupunkilaisesta ja julkisesta tilasta. Helsinki: Tammi 2005, 432s.)Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 2005:4, 51-4.7) Gronow, J., (2005). En recension av Elin Lundin: Motstånd och kreativitet. GeorgHerbert Meads bidrag till aktör-struktur debatten. Eslöv: Symposion 2004.Sociologiskforskning 2005:3, 89-928) Gronow, J., (2005). ‘O konventional’noi estetike v obshchestve moderna.’ (On theconventional aesthetics in the modern society.) Sotsiologicheskie issledovania 2005:9,104-12.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

99) Gronow, J., (2006). A book review. (Arvostelu teoksesta Julie Hessler: A Social Historyof Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953.Princeton,NJ.: Princeton University Press 2004, xvi+366 p.) Enterprise and Society2006,7, 189-91.10) Gronow, J., (2006). Russia’s new look, smell and taste. (A review of Christoph Neidthart:Russia’s Carnival. The Smells, Sights and Sounds of Transition. Lanham: Rowman &Littlefield 2003, 251p.) Senses & Society 1, 2006:1, 133-6.11) Gronow, J., (2009). Bokomtale (Arvostelu teoksesta Gerhard Emil Schjelderup ogMorten William Knudsen (red.): Forbrukersosiologi. Makt, tegn og mening iforbrukersamfunnet. Sociologisk tidskrift 16, 2008, 303-06.12) Gronow, J., (2009). Fads, fashions and ‘real’ innovations. Novelties and social change.In Shove, E., Trentmann, F.& R.Wiik (eds.): Time, Consumption and Everyday Life.Oxford and New York: Berg publishers, 2009, 129-142.13) Gronow,J. & Southertone, D., (2009). Leisure and consumption in Europe. InImmerwald, S. and G. Therborn (eds.): Handbook of European Societies. SocialTransformations in the 21 st Century. New York: Springer, 2009, 355-384.14) Gronow, J. & Zhuravlev, S., (2006). Krasota pod kontrolem gosudarstva: Osobennosti ietapy stanovlenia sovetskoi mody. (Beauty under the control of the state: the peculiaritiesand stages of the emergence of the Soviet fashion.) The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review32, 2006, 1-92.15) Gronow, J. & Zhuravlev, S., (2007). Neuvostomuodin synty: toisen maailmansodanjälkeisen kulutuskulttuurin erityispiirteitä Neuvostoliitossa. Teoksessa Kalleinen,K.(toim.), Venäjä ja Suomi. Aleksanteri-sarja 1: 2007, 193-208.16) Gronow, J. & Zhuravlev, S., (2010). Soviet luxuries from champagne to private cars. InCrowley, D. and S.E.Reid (eds.): Pleasures in Socialism. Leisure and Luxury in the Bloc.Evenston, Ill.: Northwestern Univesity Press, 2010, 121-46.17) Gronow, J. & Zhuravlev, S., (2010). The Soviet system of fashion: Fashion design atGUM, the State Department Store at Moscow. Baltic Worlds 2010:2, 27-33.18) Gronow, J. and Zhuravlev, S., (2011). The book of tasty and healthy food: Theestablishment of Soviet haute cuisine. In Strong, Jeremy (ed.): Educating tastes. Lincoln,NE.: University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming 2011).19) Gröndal, H., (2010). Changed Roles of Legal Representatives in the Legal Process ofApprehension of Children in Sweden, Paper presented at XVII ISA World Congress ofSociology, 11-17 July, Gothenburg.20) Söder, M., & Grönvik, L., (2008). Intersektionalitet och funktionshinder. In Grönvik L. &Söder, M. (eds), Bara funktionshindrad? Funktionshinder och intersektionalitet Lund:Gleerups.21) Kania M.,(2006).Critically about ourselves. Appropriation of hip hop music in Poland. :Analysis of selected hip hop lyrics. In: Hultsfredkonferensen Rock och Samhälle 14-15June, Hultsfred, Sweden.22) Kania M., (2007). Between Sunday's best identity and Monday morning reality. OnReligion and National Identity in Poland. In: Religion on the Borders. New Challenges inthe Academic Study of Religion: Södertorns University College, 19-22 April.23) Kania M., (2008). 'When the rest is going West': The perceptions of the West and reasonsfor (not) returning home as articulated by participants of Internet discussion forum. In:2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

10The 38th World Congress of the International institute of Sociology: Budapest, Hungary,June 26-29.24) Kania M., (2008). Seks w czasach zarazy. Wpływ AIDS na współczesną świadomośćseksualną : (Sex in time of cholera. Influence of AIDS on the contemporary sexualconsciousness). Kultura Popularna. 2008;3(21):99-106.25) Kania M., (2009). ‘Some say it’s for the lazy ones’ : establishing a systematic approachto study Internet forums. In: 'Feminist Research Methods: An International Conference':Stockholm, Sweden, February 4-6.26) Kania M., (2009). Collective traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-centuryEurope by Mithander, C., Sundholm, J., Holmgren Troy, M. (eds.) (2007), Peter Lang .International Sociology. 2009;24(5):707-710.27) Kania M., (2009). Here comes the Rest : A sociological perspective on postcolonialrethinking of the 'Second World'-the case of Poland'. Stockholm, Sweden:www.postcolonial-europe.eu; Postcolonial Europe.2009;28) Kania M, Saxonberg S, (2005). Globalisation or Glocalisation? : A Comparison ofAdvertising in Poland and Sweden. In: Nationalism Across the Globe. : V.I. Poznan;2005.29) Kjaernes, U., Holm.L., Gronow,J., Mäkelä,J. and M.Pipping Ekström, (2009). The studyof Nordic meals: lessons learnt. In Meiselman,H.L. (ed.): Meals in Science and Practice:Interdisciplinary Research and Business Applications. London: Woodhead Publishing,2009, 69-9130) Lundström, C., (2006). Var kommer du ifrån – egentligen? Om svenskhet, vithet ochpasserandets logiker, Stockholms universitet, Etnologiska institutionen. 11 oktober 2006.31) Lundström, C., (2006). Being ‘out of place’. Latina girls in ‘white’inner city areas of Stockholm, New Directions in Critical Theory. Global,Local and Glocal. Shifting borders and hybrid identities, A graduate studentconference, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 6-8.32) Lundström, C., (2008). Svenskhetens informella gränser. Universitetet i Oslo, CULCOM,Kulturell kompleksitet i den nye Norge. 13 oktober, 2008.33) Lundström, C., (2008). Hierarchies of Whiteness. Transnational migration, ClassPrivilege and the Case of First-Generation Swedish Women in the United States.University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology Colloquium. 14 maj, 2008.34) Lundström, Catrin (2009). Studying Privilege. Workshop at Feminist Research Methods,Stockholm University (med Katarina Mattsson), February 4-6.35) Lundström, C., (2009). Vit exklusivitet? Svenska latinas som gränsöverskridandekategori, Göteborgs universitet. Forum för studier av samtidskultur:Globaliseringsseminariet. 24 mars, 2009.36) Lundström, Catrin (2009). Svenskhetens utsida. Invandrare och Minoriteter,Nyckeln till integration? Specialnummer om kulturmöten i det svenskasamhället. Reprint.37) Lundström, C., (2009). Mellan vit hegemoni och intersektionalitet – vart är feminismenpå väg?, Samtal om feminismens framtid med Paulina de los Reyes och Edda Manga,ABF, Uppsala. 4 maj 2009.38) Lundström, C.(2009). Paneldiskussion. Internationella dagen mot rasdiskriminering,Diskrimineringsbyrån, DU MR-nätverket, Uppsala, Sensus. 21 mars 2009.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

1139) Lundström, C., (2010). White Ethnography. (Un)comfortable Conveniencesand Shared Privileges in Fieldwork with Swedish Migrant Women. NORA, NordicJournal of Feminist and Gender Research, 18(2): 70-86.40) Lundström, C., (2010). Transnationell vithet: Svenska migrantkvinnor i USA ochSingapore. TGV. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. Tema: Vithet, nr. 1-2: 23-45.41) Näsman, E.,(2008). Det angår ju oss! Om barnperspektiv och utsatta barns delaktighet.Presentation at Conference Save the Children 2008.42) Näsman, E., (2009). Financially oppressive fathers have children, presented at RN04Sociology of Children and Childhood, 9 th conference of the European SociologicalAssociation, Lisboa43) Näsman, E., (2010). Barn som brottsoffer. Presentation at conference at Motala folketshus, arr Linköping university 2010.44) Näsman, E., & Fernqvist, S., (2008). Ekonomiskt våld och barns delaktighet. Presentationat the 24 th conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Aarhus 14-17 August 2008.45) Näsman, E. & von Gerber, C., (2010). Vad betyder det för barn och tonåringar attfamiljen har ont om pengar? Presentation at Network meeting for Childhood and youthresearch 19 August Stockholm 2010.46) Näsman, E., Stina F. & von Gerber, C., (2008). Berörd, beskriven, frånvarande - Hurlänsrättens domar beskriver barn i ekonomiska biståndsärenden. Rapport. Sociologiskainstitutionen. Uppsala universitet.47) Paulsen, R. (2010). Arbetssamhället: Hur arbetet överlevde teknologin. Malmö: Gleerups.48) Purhonen, S., Gronow, J. & Rahkonen, K., (2009). Social differentiation of musical andliterary taste patterns in Finland. Research on Finnish Society 2: 29-39.49) Purhonen, S., Gronow, J. & Rahkonen, K., (2010). Nordic democracy of taste? Culturalomnivorousness in musical and literary taste preferences in Finland. Poetics , 3: 1-33.50) Räterlinck, L. E. H. (2008). ”Motsatser och överskridande. Om dualismens dilemma, denomöjliga observatören och befrielse bortom åtskiljande.” I Sverre Wide, Fredrik Palm &Misheva Wessela (red.). (2008), Om kunskap, kärlek och ingenting särskilt. (pp. 101-129). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen.51) Räterlinck, L. E. H. (2010). Adrian Johnston, Badiou, Žižek, andm PoliticalTransformations. The Cadence of Change" Sociologisk forskning, 47(3): 87-89.52) Räterlinck, L. E. H. (2010). "Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce" SociologiskForskning,47(2): 116-118.53) Räterlinck, L.E. H. (2010) "Pierre Rosanvallon, Demokratin som problem" Sociologiskforskning, 47(1):100-102.54) Räterlinck, L. E. H. (2009). ”Mats Börjesson & Alf Rehn, Makt” Sociologisk Forskning,46(2): 56-58.55) Söder, M. & Grönvik, L., (2008). Intersektionalitet och funktionshinder. In Grönvik L. &Söder, M. (eds). Bara funktionshindrad? Funktionshinder och intersektionalitet. Lund:Gleerups.56) Söder, M. (2009). Tensions, perspectives and themes in Disability Studies. ScandinavianJournal of Disability Research, 2/3 2009.57) Torres, S. (2010). 'Transnationalism as point of departure for the expansion of the socialgerontological imagination' (Paper presented at the Invited Symposium on RecentDirections in Critical Gerontology' held at the 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of theGerontological Society of America, November 19-23 in New Orleans, USA)2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

1258) Torres, S. & Hellström, I. (2010). 'The social construction of dementia: perspectives fromelderly people with dementia and their fornmal and informal caregivers' (Paper presentedat the 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America',November 19-23 in New Orleans, USA)59) Zhuravlev, S.& Gronow, J. (2006). Vlast’ mody i sovietskaya vlast’: istoriyaprotivostoyaniya. Istorik i khudozhnik 2006:1, 133-147; 2006:3, 100-113; 2006:4, 106-116.60) Zhuravlev, S. & Gronow, J. (2009). Liudi i manekeny: Otdel mod GUMa v 1954-seredine 1970-kh gg. Sotsial’naya istoriya. Ezhegodnik, Sankt-Peterburg: Aleteya 2009,241-272.61) Åsander, A.-S., (2007). Rapport-kartläggning och analys av de insatser som görs för attstödja barn med anknytning till smittade personer. Socialstyrelsen.62) Åsander, A-S., Björkman, A., Belfrage, E., & Faxelid, E., (2009). HIV-infected Africanparents living in Stockholm/Sweden: disclosure and planning for the future of theirchildren. Health & Social Work, 34 (2), 107-115.63) Åsander, A.-S., (2010). Fördjupad kunskap om HIV-smittade föräldrar med afrikansktursprung SLL, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset. Svenska barnmorskeförbundetstidskrift, 11, 32-35.64) Åsander, A.-S., (2010). HIV-infected African parents living in Stockholm, Sweden :Social networks, disclosure, parenthood, and knowledge about HIV-transmission.Karolinska Institutet. Doctoral thesis.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

13A7: Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previous researchassesment, Ko7, both with respect to decisions taken on university or faculty level and to thedepartment’s own decisions. Also comment on other effects or implications of Ko7 for thedepartment.Our department submitted an ambitious strategy covering 9 different areas after the evaluation ofKoF 07 was carried out (these included leadership, the use of internal funding, a strategy tosecure external funding, synergy-issues, a renewed focus on policy-oriented research, strategiesfor recruitment of young researchers, internationalization, collaboration at a national anduniversity-level and strategic areas of research). Commenting on what we have done on each ofthese areas within the limited space allotted to this question is not possible and since we have, infact, been quite thorough as far as implementing most of what we proposed, we will hereby focuson what we could have done better or what we still have to achieve. Related to this is thecomprehensive inventory of research activities that we mentioned in the introduction; aninventory we will use to. It is for this reason that we begin this section by addressing the reasonwhy we have put so much effort into this exercise.As mentioned in the introduction, in the previous evaluation we chose to describe ourdepartment by alluding to the research profiles that characterize the work that is conducted byour professors and chairs since this is the point of departure that we have traditionally takenwhen we have been asked to describe our department in the past. In hindsight it is clear that weshould have been not only more inclusive but also more theme-oriented since taking professors’research as our point of departure does not allow us to show the wealth and depth of themes thatour research-active staff is, in fact, involved on. Most of our professors do not hold Chairs andhave therefore relatively limited resources to build their own research groups. The focus onprofessors’ research we used in KoF 07 impeded us to show, for example, that the teaching ofsocial work in our department is not incompatible with our research environment as the KoF 07evaluators regarded our efforts to launch a new undergraduate program in social work. A look atthe work that our research-active staff conducts shows namely that a large proportion of theprojects conducted during the KoF 07 and 11 period have relevance for social work practice evenif our work is not guided by that discipline’s theoretical and conceptual frameworks. Thecomprehensive inventory of research activities that we conducted in preparation for KoF 11 –and after drawn numerous lessons from KoF 07 - has allowed us to identify the research themesthat are the most productive as far as dissemination outputs are concerned, the ones that have themost synergetic potential for our future strategy and the ones that are lacking at present but areneeded if we are to strengthen our research environment further. Hence that reflexively-speakingwe can now say that, although very reluctant at first, it is clear that engaging in these evaluationexercises can be useful. The internal discussion in which we are engaged at present about asustainable research strategy for the next decade would have not been possible if we did not havethis inventory.With respect to the very specific and comprehensive plan for the improvement of ourresearch environment that we submitted to our faculty following KoF 07 it seems appropriate tomention that one of the things we decided to focus on was to become more strategic about theuse of internal funding and the way in which we would go about increasing external funding.Deciding upon a strategy for the allotment of internal funding and devising a realistic approachfor the allotment of research time to encourage the submission of research bids proved to be verydifficult in the year following the KoF 07 evaluation. Our research reporting routines at thatpoint in time stretched only as far as the university’s central publication database system (i.e.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

14DIVA) allowed. In preparing for KoF 11 we decided therefore to create a reporting form wouldallow us to gain insight not only on the dissemination outputs that specific researchers weredelivering but also on the type of interdisciplinary collaborations they had as well as theinternational activities in which they are involved. Information on external grant per project andtheme was also something we did not have in place after KoF 07. This is why one of our mainpriorities for KoF 11 entailed the design of a project and staff based reporting system that wouldallow us to compile content-substantial information on the projects our staff is involved in aswell as information on their activities as far as <strong>Part</strong> B is concerned. The comprehensive inventorywe have compiled through this effort has put us in a much better place as far as our internaldebate about what to prioritize research-wise, how to use internal funding and how to encourageexternal funding. It is also because of the enormous effort we have spent on assembling thisinformation that we have been able to increase the number of research activities in <strong>Part</strong> B asdramatically as we have done in KoF 11. Hence that although our strategy post KoF 07 includedbecoming more selective, it is first now that we can, in fact, make sustainable and strategicallywiseuse of the limited resources we have.In terms of what has happened since KoF 07 it seems important to mention that followingthe results of that evaluation our department sought internal funding for mid-career positions tocreate the synergies we were lacking then. We received funding for one research-intensiveposition but once the lengthy recruitment process that is characteristic of the Swedish system hadrun its course we were left with a candidate who ended up getting the prestigious Pro FuturaScientia fellowship mentioned earlier. The position remains vacant at present and we decided notto rush into another recruitment round partly because the associate professor in question willreturn to our department once that fellowship has ended and partly because we decided toprioritize the recruitment of senior lecturers instead. Our undergraduate programs are namely, asalready mentioned, understaffed. Hence that recruiting senior lectures in seven different areasbecame our top priority. A few months ago the position in social work was filled while therecruitment process has just begun for the two positions in specialized social work that weannounced last year (one with children and one with older people). In addition we have just filledthe position in sociology with a specialization on quantitative methodology that we announcedlast year and are in the very beginning of the recruitment process for the positions in socialpsychology and in sociology with a specialization in organizational issues. Our department is,therefore, in the very midst of changing its staff composition and has, in fact, become far morestrategic about recruitment thanks to KoF 07. We believe we are in a much better place this timearound and look forward to seeing what the evaluation for KoF 11 will show. There is namelyquite a lot of potential for growth in our department; a lot more than we were aware of prior toKoF 07. These evaluation exercises have, in fact, become quite enlightening to our department.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

15A8: Present a list of significant prizes and awardsDuring the period in question (i.e. between 2007 and 2010) we have received thefollowing prizes, awards, fellowships and honorary professorships. First of all we are particularlyproud of the fact that one of our professors received an honorary professorship from WarwickUniversity. Two fellowships in particular seem also worth mentioning since they are amongst themost well-known in the areas in question. One of them was awarded to one of our associateprofessors received Oscarpriset in 2007 which was followed by the prestigious Pro FuturaScientia V at the end of 2009. The latter is a fellowship one gets after nominations are made byuniversities to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund. The fellowships entail, among others,working at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study which is one of Sweden’s most wellestablishedinstitutions at an international level. Another fellowship worth mentioning is theprestigious FLARE-fellowship awarded by the European Research Area on Aging in 2008 to oneof our Chairs. FLARE stands for Future Leader of Aging Research in Europe and is a uniqueresearch fellowship awarded on the basis of the importance and centrality of one’s research totheory development in gerontology and geriatrics.One of our doctoral students received the prestigious Torgny Segerstedt’s prize for bestarticle in our national sociology journal in 2009. Another won the Nordic SociologicalAssociation’s Competition for Junior Sociologist in 2008 and the prize for doctoral paper at the27 th Int’l Labor Process Conference in 2007. Last but certainly not least is the internationalaward for excellence in research that one of our emeriti professors has had named after him – theJan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies – by theInternational Section of the National Council on Family Relations in the USA. This prize isawarded every year to an internationally established research in the field of family studies sinceit was inaugurated in 1989.A9: Additional sources of information.The department’s homepage can be found at www.soc.uu.se. Unfortunately, thishomepage is still under construction since we invested in a new homepage a few months ago andwe are still in the process of refreshing it. Of interest is also that our homepage is based on thetraditional professorial-based description we have always used to describe our researchenvironment. This makes sense if we are to show how the department research capacity lookslike but may not be the best way to describe what we do which is what the extensive inventory ofresearch activities we have conducted for the purpose of KoF 11 clearly shows. This inventorywill be handed out to the panel when they visit us.2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

16<strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesB1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 38 12Invited talks at international conferences 181 40Assignment in research councils and foundations 31 16Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 29 14positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 31 14Member of international scientific councils 10 6Member of academies and learned societies 45 19Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):………………………………54 22Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 9Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 18Number of granted external funds for new projects 64Other, specify:9………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 14Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 23Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 372Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific 0expeditions, field work etc.):……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

17B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 5Popular science papers/books 24Textbooks 16Spin-off commercial companies 0Governmental/societal assignments 23Other activities according to traditions of the research field (popular science 400presentations and stakeholder activities):……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Sociology v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of StatisticsA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.i) The Department of Statistics has two main areas of research, Time SeriesEconometrics and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). These two havetraditionally also been the two main areas of research (although there havepreviously been activities in other areas such as biostatistics and statistics ingeophysics). Within the Time Series Econometrics part the main focus is on unitroot testing and cointegration in various forms, like panel unit roots/cointegration,asymptotic distributions of test statistics etc. Also, Financial Time SeriesEconometrics is a part of the research conducted. In SEM, the two main directionsare ordinal and ranking data and the modelling when data are non-Gaussiandistributed. The LISREL computer package for SEM analysis is developed byresearchers from the department. Currently, the department has a very activehigher seminar series with seminars every week. Also, a Working Paper Serieshave been started as the old Research Report Series has not been active for someyears. The current stock of PhD students are nine active; financed from facultygrants or from external grants. All of them are in various stages in writing on theirPhD thesis. There is a newly founded collaboration with London School ofEconomics for the exchange of PhD students. Recently, one junior lecturer and oneprofessor (promoted) have been employed, both has research as a substantial partof their time. The total amount of staff conducting active research is three fullprofessors (two chairs, one promoted), one associated professor, and one juniorlecturer. <strong>Part</strong>icipation in international conferences is encouraged.The goal and primary mission is regulated by the <strong>document</strong> Goal and Strategiesissued by the board of the university in 2007. There are four goals, in short: good,robust and groundbreaking research; important contributions to knowledge; worldleading research; independence of research and good research practice.2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>ii)iii)As the department is small, which is often the case for statistics departments; it isdependent on the success of a few persons. Hence, it is vulnerable to changes in thestaff conducting research. People with high knowledge in statistics are in highdemand and the supply is limited. So far, we have been able to attract highlycompetent staff, but this might not always be true in the future. To prevent this it isimportant that the PhD-program works well, that there are possibilities for newPhDs to stay at the department a while to merit them for future work within theacademia. Also the system that lecturers have no or very limited time for researchguaranteed is problematic in the long run. The department suffers, as mostdepartments, from that the research allocations from government sources arescarce. Compared to more applied disciplines the sources for research grants aresubstantially more limited. The major external research funder is Handelsbankensforskningsstiftelser which fortunately finances research in econometrics. For staffworking in SEM it is considerably more difficult. Note that grants obtained fromHandelsbankens forskningsstiftelser do not count in the system the Faculty has forallocation of the state appropriations.Currently, the Faculty of Social Sciences finances consultancies within the area ofstatistics. This means that researchers from the faculty can come to the departmentand get help with the statistical analysis of their research questions. This has leadto joint co-authored papers and is very important for the connection between theDepartment of Statistics and the other departments of the faculty. This is especiallyimportant for the SEM areas as it is rather small and otherwise heavily dependenton international collaboration. Notably, SEM is very important for applied researchin e.g. business studies, psychology etc.In 2010 the department celebrated 100 years since the first professor in statistics inSweden and at Uppsala University was established. Throughout this time thedepartment has been located in the Faculty of Social Sciences (or predecessors).There are no major adequate reasons for change of organizational placement withinthe university, neither changing location to another faculty nor as a unit withinanother department. That said, the department would like to increase itscooperation with e.g. the unit of mathematical statistics. One obstacle is that theuniversity is very spread throughout town.2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.i) Currently, the most successful directions of research are panel unitroot/cointegration and the analysis of non-normal and ordinal data within SEM.The area of panel unit roots/cointegration is underdeveloped and there are stillmany topics needed to be investigated. The same applies to SEM where currentlymodels for ipsative data are under development. Notably, the computer packageLISREL is still extended to facilitate research at the department.ii)Internationally, it is difficult to find equivalent departments. The major reason isthat statistics is a much smaller discipline in Sweden than in central Europeancountries, the UK and the US. Further, comparing nationally, the research in TimeSeries Econometrics there is no doubt that the Department of Statistics is the mostsuccessful department in Sweden, especially since the closure of the Department ofEconomic Statistics at Stockholm School of Economics. Within the SEM area it isfair to say that the only research conducted in Sweden is at this department.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.The two main directions of research have a long tradition at the department, Time SeriesEconometrics from the beginning of the 40’s and SEM from late 60’s. Due to the costinvolved in changes of research direction and that most researchers are within these fields,it is reasonable that the main focus will be unchanged. Of course, this does not imply thatthe research conducted in the next 5-10 years will be the same as it is today, in the sameway as the research in Time Series Econometrics/SEM is not the same as it has beenpreviously. Due to the increased availability of data on individuals, it is reasonable tobelieve that more research will be towards a situation where individuals are the researchobject instead of aggregate data. The newly hired promoted professor has his expertisewithin the field of the analysis of experimental data. This is a great advantage in theresearch cooperation with departments such as Department of Psychology and Departmentof Food, Nutrition and Dietetics.As the department has three professors and only one senior and one junior lecturer withfunded research time, the research suffers from not having a broad research base. It wouldbe very beneficial if additional funding could be gained to support the research of juniorstaff.Further, the SEM research is of great importance for the faculty but it is problematic thatthere is no permanent funding for research in SEM.2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Forsberg, L. and Ghysels, E. (2007) Why do absolute returns predict volatility so well?Journal of Financial Econometrics 5, 31-67.Jacobson, T., Lyhagen, J., Larsson, R. and Nessén, M. (2008) Inflation, Exchange Ratesand PPP in a Multivariate Panel Cointegration Model, Econometrics Journal 11, 58-79.Westerlund, J. and Larsson, R. (2009) A note on the pooling of individual panic unit roottests, Econometric Theory 25, 1851-1868.Yang-Wallentin, F., Jöreskog, K-.G. and Luo, H. (2010) Confirmatory Factor Analysis ofOrdinal Variables With Misspecified Models, Structural Equation Modeling 17, 392-423.A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Preve, D. and Medeiros, M.C. (forthcoming). Linear Programming-Based Estimators inSimple Linear Regression. Journal of Econometrics.http://uppsala.academia.edu/DanielPreve/Papers/128254/Linear_Programming-Based_Estimators_in_Simple_Linear_Regression2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Clarification: All publications should be registered in DiVA by Mar 1, 2011, to be available to the externalexperts and for the separate bibliometric analysis. In the case that a researcher has moved to Uppsala Universitywithin the last years, there could be vital publications contributing to the research but not registered in DiVA.A list of these publications from 2007-2010 could be added here (optional). This additional list will also beavailable to the external experts, and to the bibliometric analysis.Resent publications not in DIVA, by the newly employed Lennart Norell:1. Lundqvist H., Norell L., Danell Ö. (2007): Multivariate characterisation of environmentalconditions for reindeer husbandry in Sweden. Rangifer 27(1), 5–23.2. Lundqvist H., Norell L., Danell Ö. (2009): Relationships between biotic and abiotic rangecharacteristics and productivity of reindeer husbandry in Sweden. Rangifer 29(1), 1–24.3. Berg B., Johansson M.-B., Nilsson Å., Gundersen P., Norell L. (2009): Sequestration ofcarbon in the humus layer of Swedish forests - direct measurements. Canadian Journal ofForest Research 39, 962–975.4. Nilsson J., Kihlén A., Norell L. (2009): Are traditional cooperatives an endangered species?About shrinking satisfaction, involvement and trust. International Food and AgribusinessManagement Review 12:4, 103–123.5. Mendieta-Araica B., Spörndly E., Reyes-Sanchez N., Norell L., Spörndly R. (2009): Silagequality when Moringa oleifera is ensiled in mixtures with Elephant grass, Sugar cane, andMolasses. Grass and Forage Science 64, 364–373.6. Nielsen P.P., Pettersson G., Svennersten-Sjaunja K., Norell L. (2010): Variation in dailymilk yield calculations for dairy cows milked in AMS. Journal of Dairy Science 93, 1069–1073.7. Berg B., De Marco A., Davey M., Emmett B., Faituri M., Hobbie S., Johansson M.-B., LiuC., McClaugherty C., Norell L., Rutigliano F., Virzo De Santo A. (2010): Factors influencinglimit values for pine needle litter decomposition: a synthesis for boreal and temperature pineforest systems. Biogeochemistry 100, 57–73.8. Lakic B., Svennersten Sjaunja K., Norell L., Dernfalk J., Östensson K. (201?): The effect ofa single prolonged milking interval on inflammatory parameters, milk composition and yieldin dairy cows. (to appear in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, published on line3 Dec 2010)2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.The Department of Statistics has undertaken big changes since 2007. Notably, thefollowing changes have occurred in response to KoF07:i) The main consequence is that the Division of Statistics within the Department ofInformation Science was closed down and Department of Statistics was reestablished.This is a major advantage as it makes the statisticians more visiblewithin the university and that the professional management of the department canbe conducted with focus on the problems and opportunities of the department. Asthe administrative staff is hired from another department this has not implied anincrease in costs.ii) Since 2007 a significant number of staff has retired with the consequence that theaverage age is considerable reduced.iii) There has been a consolidation into Time Series Econometrics and SEM. The otherareas have come to either a standstill (Statistics in Geophysics) or are minor(biostatistics). With the recruitment of a promoted professor specialized inbiostatistics, the department opens up for increased cooperation with moreexperimental disciplines such as Department of Psychology and Department ofFood, Nutrition and Dietetics.iv) There is a new junior lecturer employed with 70% research for four years,specializing in Time Series Econometrics.v) The Faculty of Social Sciences finances a part time position to help researcherswithin the faculty with their statistical problems.vi) There is a substantial increase in the number of PhD students.vii) The form of supervisions of PhD students has been more formalized, with regularmeetings. From these meetings notes are usually taken.viii) The seminar series is very active with seminars every week.ix) Introduction of a Working Paper Series.x) There is also an increase in the international collaborations. E.g. Rolf Larssonspent time during his sabbatical at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, eachyear there have been a couple of researchers visiting the department for a week etc.There is a formal PhD exchange program with LSE; one of the PhD studentsvisited LSE for half a year. Another PhD student visited Columbia University for ayear.In total, as shown above, there has been considerable work to remedy the disadvantagesthat used to be present at Division of Statistics, Department of Information Science. Asyet, the fruits of this work have not paid off in terms of number of publications etc.2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsJöreskog, K.G.:i) The Award for distinguished scientific applications of psychology from theAmerican Psychological Association(APA), 2007.ii) Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Psychometric Society, 2008.Fan Yang Wallentin: Distinguished Professor from the City Government of TianjingChina, 2009-present.A9. Additional sources of informationwww.statistics.uu.se2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 1 1Invited talks at international conferences 10 5Assignment in research councils and foundations 4 1Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 15 4positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 3 2Member of international scientific councils 0 0Member of academies and learned societies 14 7Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):External evaluation of quality of research at Linneus University1 1Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 1Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 2Number of granted external funds for new projects 3Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 3Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 0Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 18Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientificexpeditions, field work etc.):……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorshipsPopular science papers/booksTextbooksSpin-off commercial companiesGovernmental/societal assignmentsOther activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.): Expert witness in courts 62011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted dataClarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (for general comments, see part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Statistics v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of GovernmentA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.Current research activities, primary missions and goals:The Department of Government is a fairly large political science department, striving tocover all the major sub-disciplines in its research as well as teaching activities. Politicaltheory, international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, publicadministration, and political economy are all represented in the research profile of thedepartment, along with corresponding sub-seminars (see below). In the midst of thisdiversity, there are, however, quite strong integrative forces at work as well, forces that wedo our best to support and maintain. Although we all have our specializations, we share ageneral interest in the prerequisites for establishing, maintaining, and realizing democracy,citizenship and a ‘just’ order on the individual, national, international and supra-nationallevel, as well as in problems of power distribution and interest formation. These sharedinterests combined with our frequent seminar activities (in sub-seminars as well as thegeneral, weekly research seminar for the department as a whole), our joint teachingactivities (for example that of jointly examining thesis work on the B.A. and M.A. levels),and our rather extensive deliberative as well as democratic procedures in the collegialcouncils and boards whereby we rule ourselves are all important instruments toward thesame end: A research environment with a sufficient basis of shared interests, sharedacademic norms and standards, and shared understanding to help us communicate in aconstructive and helpful way about the particular research problems in which we areengaged.The department has grown considerably since 2007, as has the number of internationalpublications. Furthermore, our researchers have been highly successful in acquiringexternal funding from major research councils as well as other sources. While we arecertainly not satisfied to rest on our laurels in either of these two regards, at least part ofthe success already achieved can be ascribed to the development of a set of sub-seminars(alongside the general research seminar for the department as a whole) which offer arenasfor brain-storming as well as informal and constructive criticism on an every-day basis.Consequently, the five major research clusters presented below are not merely a waypresenting our research activities in an orderly fashion but constitute real-life researchenvironments, each of which corresponding to at least one sub-seminar.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>Before we proceed, we should point out that the department is presently educating about40 Ph.D. students, who are well integrated in the research environment and participate ona daily basis in seminars and other activities. In the following presentation, however, wefocus on research conducted by those staff members who have already obtained a Ph.D.Political TheoryThe group of researchers devoted to political theory is presently growing and combines thestudy of classical political philosophy with studies driven by the normative problemsencountered in current politics. The major focus is on democratic theory, includingtheories of global democracy and globalization, where the peer-reviewed internationaljournal Ethics and Global Politics, hosted by the department, is a new and prominentoutflow. Deliberative democracy, individual liberty and democratic citizenship,nationalism and democracy, and justice in the face of global change are significant areasof research. Contributions have been published in/at (among others) Political Theory (inpress), Review of International Studies, and Critical Review of International Social andPolitical Philosophy, and Harvard University Press.International relations, European IntegrationResearch on international relations focuses mainly on international theory, foreignpolicy analysis, and security studies related to crisis management. The emphasis has beenon the impact of international institutions, including weapon control regimes, internationalregime theory, terrorism, the origins of the warning-response failures that contributed tothe September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the impact of post-crisis commissions.Conditions for peace and democracy in post-conflict societies have, through a recentrecruitment, become part of the research agenda. Processes of integration and enlargementin the European Union are currently a central part of the department’s research with aparticular emphasis on the democratic deficit, the risks of centralization,“presidentialization”, and political representation in the legislative process of the EuropeanUnion, EU enlargement and conditionality, and the influence of EU legislation on Nordiclegislation practice. Current research also extends to a specific policy area of greatimportance on the international and EU level, that of climate change. Contributions havebeen published in/at (among others) Journal of International Relations and Development,Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of CommonMarket Studies,and Cambridge University Press.Gender, migration and citizenshipA central issue addressed in the field of gender studies is the factors impeding andenhancing the political representation of women in various parts of the world. Researchersare focusing on informal as well as formal processes such as recruitment, internal partystructures, quotas and conversational practices in elected bodies. Gender and social capitalis a promising new area of research, as is masculinity research. Research on citizenship,migration and integration of immigrants, carried out in close collaboration with theInstitute for Urban and Housing Research (IBF), is to a large extent conducted from acomparative point of view. One line of research links migration to questions of informaleconomy and minority rights and another one raises questions about the way ethnicdiversity affects tolerance. Contributions have been published in/at (among others)Political Research Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Review, Journal ofEthnic and Migration Studies, Debatte, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>Welfare politics, political economy and political sociologyThe research on political economy and welfare politics focuses on welfare state arrangementsand labour market relations in advanced industrialized nations. <strong>Part</strong>icular emphasisis placed on the complex interaction between states and markets, the changing dynamics ofindustrial relations and labour markets in the face of current economic transformation,gender <strong>aspects</strong> of welfare politics, and, finally, the new challenges to welfare states posedby globalization, regional integration, immigration, and increased life expectancy.Explaining the current transformation of the welfare state, especially with regard toprivatization, health- and family policies, and eldercare is another important line ofinquiry. A working paper series called The Department of Government in Uppsala Studiesin Political Economy and Welfare was launched in the fall of 2007. Contributions havebeen published in (among others) International Journal of Social Welfare, Rationality andSociety, Public Choice, Politics and Society, Economic and Industrial Democracy, andEuropean Political Science Review (in press).Research on political sociology focuses on the interaction and intersection between institutions,individual predispositions of various kinds (for example, norms, values, motives,and perceptions), and political action. One line of research focuses on political participationas a dependent variable, to be explained by factors such as formal (gender quotas) andinformal institutions (associations, work-life), socioeconomic characteristics, and/orethnicity. Another line of inquiry takes political participation as an independent variable,focusing on the effects on decision-making of large-scale (e.g., social movements) as wellas small-scale (e.g., local-community) forms and arenas of participation. Research on politicalculture explores the possibilities and causes of value change and value formation.Contributions have been published in/at (among others) Political Behavior, ComparativePolitical Studies, Nationalities Papers, Mobilization, Democratization,Palgrave/Macmillan, and Manchester University Press.State-Building and DemocratisationResearch on processes of state-building and state-formation – including issues of corruption,elite formation and historical-cultural traditions – are conducted in transitionalcontexts such as Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, wherestate-formation is often related to nation-building and democratization. It is also studiedfrom a comparative perspective in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. However, research onstate-building extends to advanced, industrialized countries as well, where the Auditsociety, policy implementation, and the relationship between information and powerattract growing attention. Contributions have been published in (among others) EastEuropean Politics and Societies, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Baltic Studies,Europe-Asia Studies and Baltic Worlds.Missions and goalsOur goal is to expand research collaboration between staff members further, and collegialforums and activities are means to achieve this (already exemplified above). Also in orderto avoid the risk of fragmentation as a consequence of the department’s diversity andbreadth, mechanisms for common understanding and collegiality have to be activelyupheld and nourished. Several such forums exist today (already exemplified above).Increased internationalization has been a top priority for several years, leading to a rapidlygrowing number of publications in peer-reviewed international journals and atinternational publishing houses. In order to be at the front line of research, we are striving,and have managed, to increase the inflow of visiting scholars as well as a parallel outflowof our own personnel. Both Ph.D.-students and faculty members have been successful in2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>securing funding for longer stays at universities abroad (e.g. at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine,University of Toronto, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, WashingtonUniversity, New York University, Freie Universität Berlin, Stanford University, andCarlton University). The prominence of the Johan Skytte Chair and the Johan Skytte Prize,as well as the financial contributions of the Skytte Foundation is an unusual as well assignificant advantage of the department in its efforts to promote internationalization andvisibility. The department has a proud history as a contributor to public debate and finds itimportant to keep that history alive.(ii) Actions that would improve the quality and obstacles that hinder improvement ofthe department’s researchThe primary conditions that would improve the quality of our research are long-termfunding and clearly articulated expectations similar to a tenure track system. We are alsoconvinced that a system that made recurrent sabbaticals possible would contributesubstantially to the quality of research, and to the energy demanded to launch andcomplete synthesizing research. Finally, the department is already in the process of findingfunding for an academically outstanding research director, a mentor and coordinator for allthe researchers, aiming for higher international visibility.(iii) Interdisciplinary activities and networks, joint publications and fundingClosely connected to, and thus of great advantage for the Department’s research is theinterdisciplinary Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), established aspart of the Swedish Government’s <strong>Strategic</strong> Research Action, where Li Bennich-Björkmanis one of three research directors. Uppsala Center for Labor Studies is a centre of excellencerepresenting an intersection between political science and economics, where JoakimPalme plays a prominent role. The Institute for Labour Market Policy <strong>Evaluation</strong> (IFAU),the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), the newly established Centre forNatural Disaster Science (CNDS), and the Centre of Gender Excellence (at the Centre ofGender Research), are other prominent research environments where the department’sresearchers are engaged. The multidisciplinary Institute for Urban and Housing Research(IBF) is since many years affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences. Several of theirresearchers and Ph.D. students are active at the department. The Swedish Network forEuropean Studies in Political Science (SNES) is hosted by the department. Its activitiesinclude workshops, conferences, an annual yearbook and institutional support for internationalcollaboration in EU research. Formalised international networks in which staffmembers are engaged include (among others) : the Nordplus Framework Higher EducationProgramme in Transition Studies, the Internationalisation of Post-Soviet Universities(coordinated at the department), the Selection and Deselection of Political Elites ResearchNetwork, the MOVEOUT-network , the Peacekeeping Operations Workshop, Clipore(MISTRA), EUPerform, the TOLEDO-network (coordinated at the department), theCenter of Governance for Civil Society, the Nordic Network on Political Ethics, theBiographical Research Network, Research Committee 19 “Poverty, social welfare andsocial policy” of ISA, the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence of the 6th FrameworkProgram of the EU, and the ECPR Standing Group on Politics and Gender.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.(i) Current, particularly successful research activitiesSince 2007 the department has been particularly successful in five areas, reflected in thepublications listed under A1 above. These areas are both empirically oriented andtheoretical in the sense of developing frames of interpretation for understandinginternational relations and politics.(1) The research on determinants and effects of political participation and political culturalchange has been strongly developed, focusing on testing classic assumptions of spill-overeffects between work-place participation and political involvement, the influence onpolicy-making by social movements and protests in developing (and now also advancedindustrial) countries, and the role that institutional change and educational activities canplay for individual-level change of values and belief systems.(2) The formation of trust in an institutional perspective is another area of successfulresearch during recent years, building on several types of data: aggregate OECD-data, anextensive survey of Swedish workplace and neighbourhood relations as well as uniquenetwork data that include all significant actors within the labour market segment inSweden. The studies have been focused on the relationship between trust and power andpossible effects in different institutional contexts using traditional quantitative techniquesas well as network analysis. Based on findings on the importance of the institutionalsettings these studies have developed into studies of the general relationship between trustand diversity.(3) Another strong area is the transformation of the welfare state with regard toprivatization of services, growing possibilities of choice within the school and health caresystems, and reforms in the domain of social security, for example within the pensionsystem. A common focus is institutions and their role in determining political outcomes.More specifically, the evolution and effects of formal and informal institutions on thelabour market—i.e., wage-negotiation systems, labour laws and rules for unemploymentbenefits—are explored, as are strategies of, and interaction between, labour marketorganisations, and between employers and employees. Other areas in focus are genderissues related to parental leave and childcare, and issues related to immigration andmulticulturalism. Not least has the effects of institutional change on equality, accessibilityand democratic values of participation been in focus.(4) Since 2007, the department’s research on the political representation of women hasbeen improving and through some successful recruitments, the group of researchers is nowapproaching a “critical mass”. How quotas affect women’s formal representation and theirinformal influence, how structures of clientelism locks women out of politicalrepresentation and how women (and men) can use social capital in order to promote theirinterests and influence are some issues that have been successfully analysed in recentpublications.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>(5) A major line of analysis within international relations and comparative politics at thedepartment has been the integration of the European Union and the problems – both at thesupra-national and national level-associated with this major contemporary transformationof Europe. Here the researchers of the department have been successful in publishingresearch focusing for example on democratic <strong>aspects</strong>, on the legislative impact on thenational level and on the potential of the EU to respond successfully to crucial challengeslike climate change, eastern enlargement and fiscal coordination.ii) Institutions or groups suitable for benchmarking and own standingAs a leading political science department in Sweden with the ambition to conduct researchin all the main subfields of the discipline while simultaneously shouldering heavyeducational responsibilities, we should be compared to equivalent departments in size andmissions in Scandinavia and Europe. As we are a department with a broad agenda it ishard to make comparisons with research institutions with a specific focus and long-termfunding for specific topics. We consider ourselves comparable to Aarhus University iDenmark and Oslo University in Norway and comparable departments in Germany andNetherlands.In the specific areas with successful research activities, we publish in top journals,participate in leading workshops and conferences, and have important positions ininternational networks.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.All the clusters mentioned under A1 are presently conducting strong and vital research.Promising areas are therefore to be identified within these clusters rather than by pittingthem against one another. We also want to emphasize the potential for increasingly fruitfuland innovative interconnections between the clusters as significant and positive for thedepartment’s intellectual development. The rich diversity that is the hallmark of thedepartment thus contains many possibilities of future synthesizing and collaboration.Possible developments of present-day tendencies: Global justice and global democracycombining insights from political theory, international relations and democratisationresearch represents such a promising area of research where we today could identifyseveral individual researchers with great potential for theoretically innovative research.This field might well develop into a fruitful marriage between well established classicalpolitical theories on justice and freedom and the urgent normative global dilemmas andproblems; poverty, climate change, and global migration.Another promising development for the future is the study of the transformation of welfarepolitics in Europe, including both new and old member states of the European Union.Political economy and political sociology will work more closely together and with somefocus on Eastern Europe, including plans to exploit and at least partly collect new data onthe development of the welfare state. UCLS but also the UCRS are importantcollaboration partners here. We have already taken a small step in this direction by2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>merging the two seminars into one, and initiated discussions with a group of researchers atthe department. Here, we see a potential for both empirical and theoretically pioneeringresearch. Promising funding has been established through the CNDS which will givestability to the already developed research on climate change.Collaboration has recently been initiated and funded between researchers within politicaleconomy and sociology at the department, the Stockholm School of Economics and theKarolinska Institute, (home of the twin registry), exploring the role of genes (heritage) inexplaining political behaviour and values. Highly interesting, preliminary results havebeen presented during 2010. This research is highly controversial, since it challenges thestrong assumption of the crucial impact of socialization which has been with politicalscience and sociology for a long time. Here, we see a possibility of really pioneeringempirical research conducted at the department in a five-year perspective. Likewise, thedepartment’s younger researchers with a focus on gender have been very successful intheir efforts to secure external funding and are combining insights from gender studies andresearch on the organisation and recruitment of political parties to understand howconstitutional arrangements of quotas work in different contexts. The growing focus onmasculinity and male roles in combination with ethnicity and class within gender studiesalso represents a promising new direction of research at the department. In these areas too,we thus see a potential in a five-year perspective for innovative theoretical and empiricalresults.Based on earlier research on interest organisations, governmental agencies, Scandinaviancorporatism as well as the role of deliberation and negotiation within modern democracy anew wave of promising research has evolved with support from the Swedish ResearchCouncil. The researchers focus on how knowledge and science is used in a moderndemocracy and welfare state, how policies are framed, and how collective actors withinthe state and civil society incorporate, acquire and produce knowledge, in what way theyimpart that knowledge to other participants, and to what extent they seriously consider thecontribution of other parties to the discussion. Does civil society contribute to the publicdiscourse in a deliberative manner or does it only work as a platform for special interests?Two research projects have already started and a research program partly financing twoprofessors and at least one post-doctoral position and one Ph.D. student was recentlyfunded for the coming five years.Ideas for future developments. Finally, in an even longer, ten-year perspective, we wouldsee as promising a growing focus in the department on how demographic factors (agestructures, sex ratios) is related to political culture, the design of welfare policies, andstate-building. That would demand a closer collaboration of economic geographers, socialpsychologists and political scientists on the issues of explaining policy-making and socialprocesses of equality and inequality, which could be seen in combination with the researchon genetic influences on political behaviour and political culture.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department. = 10 publikationerBennich-Björkman, Li. 2007. Political Culture under Institutional Pressure. How InstitutionsTransform Early Socialization. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.Guzzini, Stefano, and Walter Carlsnaes, eds. 2011 [in press]. Foreign Policy Analysis (fivevolumes). London: Sage Publications.Hermansson, Jörgen et.al. 2010. Regeringsmakten i Sverige: Ett experiment i parlamentarism1917–2009. Stockholm: SNS förlag.Jarstad, Anna, and Timothy D. Sisk, eds. 2008. From War to Democracy: Dilemmas ofPeacebuilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Lewin, Leif. 2007. Democratic Accountability. Why Choice in Politics is Both Possible andNecessary. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Oskarsson, Sven, Torsten Svensson, and PerOla Öberg. 2009. ”Power, Trust, and InstitutionalConstraints: Individual Level Evidence.” Rationality and Society 21(2):171–195.Sjöberg, Ola, Joakim Palme, and Eeoro Carroll. 2010. “Unemployment insurance.” In FrancisCastles et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States.. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.Tralau, Johan. 2010. Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt: The Politics of Order and Myth.London: Routledgevan Deth, Jan, José Ramón Montero, and Anders Westholm, eds. 2007. Citizenship andInvolvement in European Democracies: A Comparative Analysis. London: Routledge.Widmalm, Sten. 2008. Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to theWest. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department. = 5 publikationerBjarnegård, Elin. 2009. Men in politics. Revisiting Patterns of Gendered ParliamentaryRepresentation in Thailand and Beyond. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Government,Uppsala University.Öberg, Perola and Torsten Svensson. 2010: “Does Power Drive out Trust? Relations betweenLabour Market Actors in Sweden.” Political Studies 58(1):143–166.Ethics & Global Politics, an Open Access, peer reviewed scholarly journal published by Co-Action Publishing and edited by Eva Erman and Sofia Näsström, with editorial office atthe Department of Government, Uppsala University.Lindgren, Karl-Oskar. 2010. “Dyadic Regression in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity: AnAssessment of Alternative Approaches.” Social Networks 32(4):279–289.Tapar-Björkert, Suruchi. 2010. “Social Capital and Educational Experiences of YoungPakistani Muslims in the U.K.” International Journal of Social Enquiry 3(2):3-24.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department. = OBS - NyttSince 2007, the department has not only grown considerably but experienced importantchanges in other respect as well. The retirement of several leading researchers along withthe previous assessment inspired the department to take some important steps to improveleadership structure and research activities. Another important force of change has been anew model at the faculty level for allocating resources, (modestly) rewarding researchactivity like publications, successful external funding, dissertations, and employment oflecturers and professors. Presumably, this force might become of even greater importancein the future.In order to further increase and strengthen external funding and international publishing,we are arranging recurrent seminars on how to write research applications as well asspecific “publication seminars”. Presentations at the sub-seminars have become animportant first step toward publication. A lecturer takes on the role of research mentor fornew post-doctorates. The yearly meeting between the head of the department and theindividual staff member is nowadays explicitly about research (collaboration, funding,time-allocation and publication), not only about teaching activities. The next step will beto find an academically outstanding research director, a mentor and coordinator for all ourresearchers, aiming for higher international visibility.Although we cannot speak with certainty about the efficiency of the above-mentionedactivities, they have at the very least served as an explicit signal for all researchers toincrease their efforts. Consequently, the number of publications in international journalsand at international publishing houses has increased considerably. The department’sresearchers have also been highly successful in securing external funding from majorresearch councils as well as other sources.Since almost all lecturers and professors have managed to secure external funding, thedepartment has deliberately increased employment of lecturers in order to fill the gaps inteaching. Some of the new positions have been directed towards specific areas. Since 2007we have employed nine lecturers (all of whom bringing external research funding) and onevisiting lecturer. We are also planning to hire one or two junior researchers/lecturersduring the next few years as a means of recruiting promising new Ph.D.s. The newuniversity policy towards a tenure-track system and the opportunity to appoint professorson our own may open promising ways for a recruitment policy based on the researchprofile we try to achieve.While appreciative of our research environment in many ways, the previous 2007assessment nevertheless pointed to some potential weaknesses: the discrepancy betweensymbolic and formal leadership; antinomies within the academic hierarchy; the strongesteem for the values of individual autonomy; lack of control over important input factorsconnected to funding and systematic recruitment from below.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>As to the discrepancy between symbolic and formal leadership, this is, in our view, not somuch a characteristic of our particular department as it is a general characteristic of theuniversity organisation. As we see it, academic leadership is exercised by the council ofprofessors (“professorsgruppen”) and the council of supervisors of Ph.D. students(“handledarkollegiet”) whereas formal leadership (executive decision-making) is exercisedby the departmental board (“institutionsstyrelsen”) and the head of the department(“prefekten”). We generally think of this division of labour as an asset rather than aliability. The fact that the administrative duties have grown considerably in recent yearsprovides an additional reason for separating the two tasks while of course maintainingstrong lines of communication between them. One way of meeting the latter requirementis to have a professor serve as head of the department, thereby engaging in both activitiesalbeit in different capacities. While such was not the case at the time of the previousassessment, it currently is.With regard to antinomies within the academic hierarchy, we think the previousassessment exaggerated the conflict. But regardless of the extent to which it held true then,we cannot see any sign of it today. The differences in employment conditions are stillthere, but they do not affect status within the group, especially since all promotedprofessors with full-time employment have research funding. As already indicated thecouncil of professors, in which all professors enjoy membership on equal terms, plays animportant role with regard to academic leadership. Furthermore, since 2007 this councilhas grown from a quite small group to a fairly large one, currently counting ten members(including two professors from IBF) and likely to include at least three additional ones inabout a year’s time.Two conditions still hamper our activity. First, most resources for research come fromexternal funds and are controlled by individual staff members rather than by thedepartment as a whole. The basic funding by the university does not cover more than aminor part of our research and is shared between lecturers, assistant professors andprofessors on the one hand and Ph.D. candidates on the other. This makes it difficult tocreate stable, long-term financing of research and to design a certain research profile forthe department as a whole. Second, the huge overhead costs imply a substantial overtaxationand good research money feeds the university administration.As a large political science department striving to produce high quality research in all themajor sub-disciplines, we highly appreciate individual autonomy for the researcher toelaborate research questions and design promising projects. However, within theboundaries set by funding systems and respect for individual autonomy and initiative, weactively support collaboration around broad themes and stand ready to take initiatives topromote coordination whenever they are needed.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsGustavsson Gina, female, age 23, best paper at the annual conference of the SwedishPolitical Science Association (SWEPSA) 2007. Title: “The Problem of Individualism.”Prize motivation: “in many respects the best, most innovative, and of most advantage tosociety among the conference papers.”Guzzini Stefano, male, age 46, awarded by the Central and East European International StudiesAssociation 2009 for his outstanding contributions to the association, including his successfulefforts as editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development.A9. Additional sources of informationThe Department of Government:http://www.statsvet.uu.se/Start/tabid/3202/language/en-US/Default.aspxThe research activities of the department:http://www.statsvet.uu.se/Forskning/tabid/3486/language/en-US/Default.aspxThe Johan Skytte Prize:http://skytteprize.statsvet.uu.se/The journal Ethics and Global Politics:http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egpThe Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science (SNES):http://www.snes.se/Hem/tabid/1630/language/en-US/Default.aspxThe research project “Tolerance and Trust in Challenging Political Environments in SouthAsia and Africa (TOLEDO)”http://www.statsvet.uu.se/toledo.statsvet.uu.seThe research project “MOVEOUT: An international cross-disciplinary network for thestudy of social movement outcomes”http://moveout.statsvet.uu.se/Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justicehttp://forum.gamlatorget.uu.se/Startsida/tabid/1856/language/en-US/Default.aspxThe Department of Government in Uppsala Studies in Political Economy and Welfare(working paper series):http://www.statsvet.uu.se/WorkingPaperSeries/tabid/3689/language/sv-SE/Default.aspxUppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS):http://www.ucrs.uu.se/Forskning/?languageId=12011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS):http://ucls.nek.uu.se/Forum for German Studies/Forum Deutchlandstudienhttp://www.fft.uu.se/Start/tabid/3123/language/en-US/Default.aspx (partly in Swedish)http://www.fft.uu.se/Start/tabid/3123/language/de-DE/Default.aspxClimate Policy Research (Clipore):http://www.clipore.org/Nordic Network on Political Ethics:http://www.nnpe.au.dk/2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 22 6Invited talks at international conferences 29 11Assignment in research councils and foundations 24 11Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 23 13positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 39 11Member of international scientific councils 2 2Member of academies and learned societies 10 7Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Faculty opponent 12 7Member of grading committe 46 18Presented paper at international conference 127 33The annual conference of SWEPSA (Swedish Political ScienceAssociation) 2008? ?Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 6Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 13Number of granted external funds for new projects 59Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 18Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 6Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 44Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientific 22expeditions, field work etc.):Member of international network for higher education2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 2Popular science papers/books 26Textbooks 17Spin-off commercial companies --Governmental/societal assignments 55Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.): ……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).Comments:Beside the researchers counted in section C we have 3 researchers with private grants.These are not formally employed by the department but still counts as faculty members.In our report to the faculty we report this year 20 doctoral students formally employed andfinanced by resources from the faculty of social science (not 17 as stated in section C). Allin all, irrespective of form of finance, we have 38 active doctoral students at thedepartment (those who are on parental leave are included).There is an error regarding licentiate exams. We have had one licentiate exam but not in2010. Data should be moved to the period 2005-2009.2011-02-28 Dept of Government v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>document</strong>, <strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics (FND)A1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions and goals aswell defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.Research profilei)The research at FND can be categorised as belonging to one of two areas: i) the meal inthe public sector, ii) the communication of dietetics. Or it can belong to both areas. Theresearch representing “The meal in public sector” is characterized by issues of foodservice in the public sector and for people that need support with food and meals ineveryday life, thus including especially vulnerable groups such as older people, children,and people with disabilities and illness. This area of knowledge was also a dominant partof our teaching, which strengthened the focus on these issues. The other area of research– The communication of dietetics – had also emerged from teaching our students and anoverall analysis of the role of food and health in contemporary society. It involves how,for example, certain foods are at the centre of attention among the scientific community,how nutritional issues and healthy foods are communicated in society and perceivedamong different populations and professions. It can also involve looking at certain foodsfrom a health or sensory perspective. The didactics of food and health is thus prominentin this context. The major projects that FND has been responsible for and involved induring the last decade can be said to belong to both areas; The MENEW-project (Meals,Eating Habits and Nutrient Intake among Elderly Women) 1997-2001 was acollaboration between FND and Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences atUppsala University that studied meals among older women, both healthy ones and thosewith disabilities. The EU project Food in Later Life 2003-2005, which was acollaboration between eight European countries including Sweden and FND, includedolder people managing their food in everyday life by themselves and those in need ofsupport. Different perspectives were examined, such as how older people manage food ineveryday life with support, and how this European generation perceived communicationsabout food and health. In the European project CHANCE (Community HealthManagement to Enhance Behaviour) 2007-2009 a collaboration between six Europeancountries, including FND in Sweden, were seen in which FND, amongst others,examined older people’s perceptions of communications about food and health, and alsosocietal support and infrastructure regarding food and health. Food 21 should also be2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>mentioned here, a project coordinated and administrated by the Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences and involving two doctoral students from FND.The PhD projects during the last decade (2000-2010) have included, and still include,studies on food intake and meals among pre-school children and how they and the preschoolstaff perceived healthy food and pedagogic meals; perceptions of food and healthamong teenagers; perceptions of quality <strong>aspects</strong> of Swedish school meals; sensoryqualities and consumer perceptions of bread from different production systems; theorganisation and outcomes of food service for older people in need of support; theorganisation and outcomes of food and meals for people with intellectual disabilities inneed of support; the school meal as part of the Swedish welfare state and how this publicmeal is communicated in society among children, teachers, and others; the intake of fruitand vegetables and how these foods are communicated among adults in society, andparticularly online; the home economic discourse among pupils and teachers with a focuson food and meals; the dietetic discourse illuminated by the dietetic professions in theireveryday work with a focus on nutritional care <strong>document</strong>ation in patient records; thefamily meal, with emphasis on health as part of society and its discourse; rye bread –health and sensory <strong>aspects</strong>, including the communication of these <strong>aspects</strong>; food securityamong older people.All of these projects fall into the areas of i) the meal in the public sector, ii) thecommunication of dietetics, or both. The connection between research and education isalso continuously present at the department, which is a strength.Other projects, recently finished or ongoing, that our staff is involved in can also more orless be categorised into our research headings such as a project that looks at biomarkersof whole grain intake; the role and perception of food, particularly healthful food, amongspouses to people with Alzheimer’s disease; the impact of migration on health amongelderly immigrants; strategies and perceptions of dietary change in relation to variousdiseases (celiac).ii)In the fall of 2010 the Department was granted SEK 9.2 million (about EUR 900,000)from the Swedish Research Council to establish a National Graduate School in HomeEconomics. The application was a collaboration with the three other higher educationinstitutions in Sweden that teach home economics, and focused on the importance ofstudying food and health in home economics and among teachers as a discourse governedby disparate health-communication sources that can have effects on pupils’ education infood and health with respect to gender, ethnicity, and class. In other words – it deals withthe didactics with food, meals, and health and particularly within the teaching context ofhome economics. The PhD students will be recruited during the spring of 2011. ThisNational Graduate School will strengthen the connection between education and researchin Home Economics, deploying a strategy of concatenating all degree programmes withresearch areas relating to them.The department has experienced some years with low PhD activity. This can beexplained by multiple factors (such as maternity leave and illness); however this has beenimproved and in the fall of 2010 one doctoral degree was completed. In 2011 two, maybethree more doctoral thesis are planned to finish. Furthermore during 2010 two new2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>doctoral students were employed, in 2011 two more will be admitted in the context of theGraduate School. Thus the “critical mass” of doctoral students is being strengthened. Fora department whose everyday work to a large degree is based on teaching undergraduatestudents, having a substantial group of doctoral students is important to safeguardresearch activities. With the future development at FND this is being fulfilled.iii) Work with the research application for the Graduate School mentioned above hasled to new interdisciplinary research networks in education and didactics within UppsalaUniversity – and in the long run this has also paved the way for new internationalnetworks in this research area, which is positive for both of FDN’s research areas, butparticularly for the communication of dietetics.The department is involved in several international networks that can be used forbuilding research networks such as DIETS (a European network for harmonization anddevelopment of dietetic education), the Food in Later Life project (this EU researchproject continues to generate participation in many research contexts), CHANCE (also aEuropean research network). Further, at Uppsala University a network for didacticresearch, and recently a microbiology network among departments in Sweden teachingmicrobiology, initiated by FDN. We have a Sweden-Iran collaboration in migrationimpact on food habits and health among the elderly immigrants, NEON (the Network inEpidemiology and Nutrition), researchers at the Swedish University of AgriculturalSciences on whole grain biomarkers HELGA – Nordic Health Whole-grain Food.Current networks are also the Epidemiological Network (Epinet) at Uppsala University;the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shaheed Beheshti University of MedicalSciences, Tehran/Iran; Center for Family and Community Medicine (CeFAM),Karolinska Institute; Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University/ RegionSkåne. Collaboration has been established with the Department of Public Health andCaring Sciences on Research on Pregnancy Planning related to food intake, andparticularly folate and Vitamin D, which has already resulted in an article accepted forpublication. We have ongoing plans to extend our collaboration with researchers in Umeåand Gothenburg, as well as with researchers in UK (Bournemouth University) relatedespecially to food service and meals in the public sector.The FDN department believe its present organizational placement at the Faculty of SocialSciences and the location at BMC campus is appropriate, though not optimal. It enablesus to have an individual platform yet be conveniently located for collaboration withdepartments within the Faculty of Medicine.2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.i) As described earlier in this <strong>document</strong> the two research areas at FDN are i) the meal inthe public sector, ii) the communication of dietetics. These two areas can also bepresented as a particular successful research focus on food and meals in later life that hasresulted in many refereed articles but also invitations from the scientific community toparticipate in international scientific anthologies on the subject or to give speeches atinternational scientific conferences. This in turn has extended the scientific network onthis particular subject, but also generated contacts with scholars on other subjectsconcerning food and meals. Vulnerable groups such as people with intellectualdisabilities and their everyday life related to food and meals is a research area that isalmost unique to FND from an international perspective and hopefully this research areawill be extended.ii) From a national perspective, research at FDN is rather unique in some respects, forexample research on meals in the public sector, but also establishing the didactics ofcommunication based on the professions our educational programmes are aimed for.Compared to departments in Sweden with equivalent educations and research in the areaof food and nutrition, FDN at Uppsala University has more senior researchers with aPhD, more professors, and more PhD students, and the research represents to a greaterdegree a broader research profile including qualitative and quantitative methods. From aninternational perspective research on meals in the public sector is rare, while the didacticsof communication is better established depending on what the focus is. Organisations anddepartments that can benefit from FDN’s research are for example the National FoodAdministration in Sweden, municipalities responsible for food service for the elderly andother vulnerable groups, schools and pre-schools, social organisations working in thepublic sector, and so on. FDN’s research contributes to a deeper understanding whendiscussing standards and for example new routines in a social organisation such aselderly care and health-promoting activities.2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspectiveof 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of theseresearch directions would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. interms of proportion between different categories of researchers and other personnel.There are several vulnerable groups in society in terms of health and food, including oldpeople and young people, but also those with disabilities and illness.Our goal for the future is to strengthen the research about a) food and meals in everydaylife among elderly people and those in need of support, as well as among children’s“foodscapes” such as the school, families, and among peers, which falls under the tworesearch areas pointed out above, and b) how nutritional issues and healthful foods arecommunicated in society and perceived among different population groups (elderlypeople, children, other adults) and professions, and how this affects for example theeveryday work of the dietetic profession and the teaching profession. In this context thedidactics of food and health in teaching in school is prominent, as is the didactics ofdietetics in society.With forthcoming doctoral theses relating to the research described above and theestablishment of the National Graduate School, the “knowledge base” for FND willdeepen and grow, and, with the new research networks that will follow in the footsteps ofour strategies, the future looks promising and challenging. We will also plan for postdoctoralfellows at our department.To improve the quality of the department’s research in general more senior lecturerswould have to devote their time to research, which is very difficult considering theirworkload in teaching. Applications to research foundations need to be producedcontinuously in the years to come, and especially in collaboration with otherdepartments, preferable targeting EU grants. We have ongoing discussions with otherdepartments within Uppsala University and with the international scientific community.2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Fjellström C, Starkenberg Å, Wesslén A, Tysén Bäckström A-C, Faxén-Irving G and theOmegAD Study group, (2010). To be a Good Food Provider: An Exploratory Study AmongSpouses of Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease andOther Dementia, 2010;25 (6), 521-526.Persson Osowski C, Göranzon H, Fjellström C. (2010). Perceptions and Memories of the FreeSchool Meal in Sweden. Food, Culture and Society, 13 (4): 556-572.Lundkvist, P, Fjellström, C, Sidenvall, B, Lumbers, M, Raats, M and Food in Later life Team,2010. Management of healthy eating in everyday life among senior Europeans. Appetite, 55(3), 616-622.Simunaniemi A-M, Andersson A, Nydahl M, (2009). Fruit and vegetable consumption closeto recommendations: A partly web-based nationwide dietary survey in Swedish adults. Food& nutrition research, 53 DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v53i0.2023Mattsson Sydner, Y., Sidenvall, B., Fjellström, C., Raats, M. & Lumbers, M. (2007). Foodhabits and foodwork – the Life Course Perspective of Senior Europeans. Food, Culture andSociety. 10 (3), 367-387A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Adolfsson P, Fjellström C, Lewin B, Mattsson Sydner Y, (2010). Food work among peoplewith intellectual disabilities and dietary implications depending on staff involvement.Scandinavian Journal of Disabilty research, DOI: 10.1080/15017419.2010.507384.Nydahl, M, Gustafsson, I-B, Mohsen R, Becker W, (2009). Comparison between opticalreadable and open-ended weighed food records. Food & nutrition research, 53, 1-8.)2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Clarification: All publications should be registered in DiVA by Mar 1, 2011, to be available to the externalexperts and for the separate bibliometric analysis. In the case that a researcher has moved to Uppsala Universitywithin the last years, there could be vital publications contributing to the research but not registered in DiVA.A list of these publications from 2007-2010 could be added here (optional). This additional list will also beavailable to the external experts, and to the bibliometric analysis.Österdahl M, Kocturk T, Koochek A, Wändell P. Effects of a short-term intervention withlow carbohydrate (paleolithic) diet in healthy volunteers. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007 May 16.Koochek A, Johansson S-E, Kocturk T, Sundquist J, Sundquist K. Physical activity and BodyMass Index in elderly Iranians in Sweden: A population – based study. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007Jul 25.Koochek A, Ali Montazeri, Sven-Erik Johansson, Jan Sundquist. Health-related quality of lifeand migration: A cross-sectional study on elderly Iranians in Sweden. Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2007, 5:60Koochek A, Mirmiran P, Azizi T , Padyab M, Johansson S-E, Karlström B, Azizi F,Sundquist J. Is Migration to Sweden Associated with Increased Prevalence of Risk Factorsfor Cardiovascular Disease? European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention &Rehabilitation. 2008 Feb;15(1):78-82.Ödlund Olin, Koochek A, Cederholm T, Ljungqvist O. Minimal effect on energy intake byadditional evening meal for frail elderly service flat residence – A pilot study. J Nutr HealthAging. 2008 May;12(5):295-301.Olsson, C., Lyon, P., Hörnell, A., Ivarsson, A., Mattsson Sydner, Y. (2009). Food that makesyou different: the stigma experienced by adolescents with celiac disease. Qualitative HealthResearch.19(7):976-984.Olsson, C. Hörnell, A. Ivarsson, A. & Mattsson Sydner, Y. (2008). The everyday life ofadolescent coeliacs – issues of importance for compliance with the gluten-free diet.Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 21(4): 359-67.Landström,E., Koivisto Hursti U.-K., Becker W, Magnusson M. (2007). Use of functionalfoods among Swedish consumers is related to health-consciousness and perceived effect.British Journal of Nutrition, 98, 1058-1069.Landström,E., Sidenvall B, Koivisto Hursti U.-K., Magnusson M.. (2007). Health-careprofessionals' perceived trust in and willingness to recommend functional foods. A qualitativestudy. Appetite, 48, 241-247.Landström,E., Koivisto Hursti U.-K., Magnusson M. (2009). Functional foods compensatefor an unhealthy lifestyle: Swedish consumers' impressions and perceived need of functionalfoods. Appetite, 53, 34-43.2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effects orimplications of KoF07 for the department.The evaluation of research made by “KoF07” in 2007 was the starting point for a resoluteresearch strategy adopted by FND. In 2008 the Department changed its name and thename of the research discipline from Domestic Science to Food, Nutrition and Dietetics,which entailed that the former unit, Textile Sciences, left the department. Based on theresearch previously done at the department and what we saw as important researchquestions, we decided to focus and present our research in primarily two research areas;i) The meal in public sectors and ii) The communication of dietetics. Researchrepresenting “The meal in public sector” is characterized by issues of food service in thepublic sector and for people that need support with food and meals in everyday life, thusincluding especially vulnerable groups such as older people, children, and people withdisabilities. This area of knowledge was also a dominant part in our teaching of students,which strengthened the focus on these issues. The other area of research – Thecommunication of dietetics – had also emerged from our teaching and from an overallanalysis of the role of food and health in contemporary society. It involves how forexample certain foods are at the centre of attention among the scientific community, hownutritional issues and healthy foods are communicated in society and perceived amongdifferent cultures or professions. It can also involve looking at certain foods from a healthor sensory perspective. The didactics of food and health is thus prominent in this context.At this time FDN also applied for a professorship in “The communication of dietetics”.This was not granted; however, the Vice Chancellor at Uppsala University did allocate anassociate senior lecturer in this area for the department.A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsA9. Additional sources of informationOne important issue that needs to be addressed in this context is the constant relocationsthe department has been forced to undertake during the last couple of years (2005-2010)and will be forced to undertake once more during 2011. This has of course affected theefficiency of research work, as well as other work including teaching. Hopefully this willbe sorted out during 2011.2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 5 3Invited talks at international conferences 5 3Assignment in research councils and foundations 7 3Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 8 4positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 5 4Member of international scientific councilsMember of academies and learned societies 10 8Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.): 1. Headof Graduate School, 2. Organizing Committee- local committee.The 10th Nordic Meeting for Dietitians in Uppsala 2008-04-10-2008-04-12, 3. Helsinki University, Department of Education,Scientific supervisor Home Economic education, 4. Chairman ofthe Swedish Dietitian (DRF) expert group of Sports Nutrition, 5.EuroFIR Users and Advisory Group 2006-2010Member of Mc Donald´s National Scientific BoardMember of The Swedish Dietitian Scientific Board (DRF)Member of The Swedish Olympic Committee´ group of dietaryadviser5 7Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 2Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 1Number of granted external funds for new projects 4Other, specify:B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration)Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration)Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 31• Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify;scientific expeditions, field work etc.):2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorshipsPopular science papers/books 19Textbooks 2Spin-off commercial companiesGovernmental/societal assignments 4Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.):The staff at FND have made about 30-40 popular scientific presentations during2007-2010, representing results from EU-funded projects, sensory <strong>aspects</strong> offood, food and the elderly, “GI food and metabolic effects”, food service andthe public meal, food and culture, food among teenagers, fruit and vegetables inblogs, and so on. Below are some examples:*M Nydahl, C Fjellström, B Sidenvall, M Lumbers, M Raats. Implementationof findings from the EU-funded project ”Senior Food Quality??”. “Food classesfor old people”. Presented at ten different conferences nationally andinternationally* M Nydahl, M Enroth, I Marklinder. Presentation of the CHANCE project at fivedifferent conferences*A Andersson. Public evening lectures at Uppsala University 28 November2008. Debate about the national dietary recommendations ”Statlig kostcirkeleller kändisbantare? (State food circle or celebrity dieting)”*A Andersson. Lectures at the national Dietetic Association Congress 2007,“Evidence based nutrition” and “Updates about sport nutrition”.*Y Mattsson Sydner Diseases related to undernourishment in elderly care –Almedalsveckan, Visby, 2008*Y Mattsson Sydner. The meaning of food in elderly care StiftelsenÄldrecentrum, Stockholm, 2010* C Fjellström & Y Mattson Sydner, Food and successful again, The RoyalSwedish Academy of Science 2010* I Kihlberg Taste, chemistry and sensory <strong>aspects</strong> Kemiska Sällskapet iUppsala, Kemins Dag 2010, den 15 okt. 20102011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted dataClarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (for general comments, see part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology1<strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDepartment of PsychologyA1. i) Summary of current research activities. State primary missions and goals as welldefined as possible. ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’sresearch, and obstacles that hinder improvement. iii) Describe interdisciplinary activitiesand networks, giving information on joint publications and funding, and statements onthe suitability of the present organizational placement within Uppsala University.The vast majority of the academic staff at the department is actively involved in research.Among the faculty at the department, the following positions have research as part of theircontract: 5 Chair Professors (50 %), 4 Promoted Professors (20-50 %), 2 Research Fellows(80%), 2 Lecturers (70 %), and 12 post docs or externally funded Researchers (80-100%). Inaddition there are 12 Senior Lecturers that can—and in general do—devote 20 percent of theirtime to research (often more based on external funding) and 34 PhD students. Between 2007and 2010 the department has continued to be among the most successful Swedish psychologydepartments in regard to attracting external funding (a total of 78 851 088 Swedish Crowns;app. 8.8 million euro) and is generally recognized as being at the forefront of Swedish psychology.One example is that since 2003 the National Committee for Psychology at the SwedishRoyal Academy of Sciences annually awards a prize to a young researcher in Psychologyand 5 out of 8 prizes have been awarded to scientists at the Department of Psychology inUppsala. The research groups at the department are briefly described in the following.Research GroupsThe research at the Uppsala Babylab has its main emphasis on the development of action andsocial cognition in early infancy (1 professor, 1 senior professor, 5 PhDs, 6 PhD students,and 1 lab-coordinator). The research focuses on the development of motor control and socialcognition in early infancy, using an action perspective. According to this perspective infants’own actions are at the heart of the development and reflect all its different <strong>aspects</strong>, includingperception, cognition, and motivation. The studies concentrate on, among other things, thedevelopment of predictive control, infants’ ability to control their own actions and anticipatethe goal of others actions, motion perception, and brain development. Between 2007 and 2011the Babylab research group has published a large number of articles in high impact journalslike Current Biology, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, Biology Letters,Social Neuroscience, and Nature Neuroscience. Until May 2010 Claes von Hofsten managedthe Babylab. Von Hofsten has been awarded several times for his contribution to the field(American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010; American Psychological Society, 2010; Kurt-Koffka Award, 2008). A second research group concerned with developmental psychologymainly investigates older children and concentrates on developmental psychopathology (2professors, 3 PhDs, 5 PhD students). The general goal of much of this research is to understanddevelopmental pathways where early individual and environmental factors contribute tolater outcomes. Among the issues addressed are the developmental psychopathology behindADHD, the role of attachment, the development of behavior problems and competencies, andpeer relations. Research designs are often longitudinal, although experimental paradigms arealso employed. The group has had a high rate of publications in journals like DevelopmentalPsychology, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Developmental Science and has generateda large number of PhDs, which after their dissertation have proven successful in gettingpost docs and research grants on their own. Two of them have received the Prize as outstandingyoung scientist from The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Psychology).The research group concerned with emotion and facial expressions adopts a biologicalevolutionaryperspective and investigates how emotional responses, independent of consciouscognitive processes, can be evoked and manifested as distinct physiological reactions (e.g.,2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology2facial muscle reactions) as well as how facial feedback plays an important role for emotionalexperience to occur (1 professor, 2 PhDs, 1 PhD student). Emotional activity is studied inthree <strong>aspects</strong> of the emotional response system; the expressive, the physiological, and thecognitive level. <strong>Part</strong>icularly, facial expressions are measured with an electromyographic(EMG) technique. The results are published in journals like Psychological Science, Psychophysiology,Cognition and Emotion, as well as reported in BBC News, Science/Nature and inNew York Times/Science. The research is also referred to in basic introductory textbooks inPsychology, e.g. “Psychology: Frontiers and Application” by Passer, M. W. & Smith, R. E.,2001). The research group on music psychology is concerned with how people create and experiencemusic (1 professor, 1 professor emeritus, 3 PhD students). The aim is to describe,explain, and predict how music in a variety of environments give rise to emotions in listenerswith different characteristics, both as relates to basic research and applied domains such ashealth, technology, music education, and clinical psychology. The group uses a wide range ofmethods including experiments, surveys, computer simulations, acoustic measurements, psychophysiology,video observation, and experience sampling. The group has published severalhighly cited articles in prestigious journals like Psychological Bulletin, Behavioral and BrainSciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology and Emotion, and has edited two best-sellingbooks on music and emotion published by Oxford University Press. One member of the groupreceived the Oscar's Prize at Uppsala University in 2008. A unique feature of the group is theclose integration of research, basic courses, and public seminars on music psychology.The research group that investigates the cognitive processes that underlie human judgmentand decision making relies on a mix of laboratory experiments and computational modelingto explain judgment and decision phenomena by relating them to basic research in cognitivescience (mainly on perception, categorization and memory) and by an ecological analysis ofthe organism-environment relations that support this behavior (1 professor, 3 PhDs, 3 PhDstudents, 1 research assistant). Research in the group has addressed a number of classic judgmentphenomena, like overconfidence and conjunction fallacies, but also issues in regard tomultiple-cue learning, categorization, and choice. The group has published a long list of articlesin prominent journals, including several articles in the Psychological Review as well as inother high-quality outlets (e.g., JEP: LMC, JEP: G, Psychological Science). The group has analumnus of 10 PhD students and in 2008 a member of the group was recognized with theSegerstedt Medallion at Uppsala University for this research. A more newly formed researchgroup is concerned with cognitive neuroscience and the organization of human memory inthe brain (1 PhD, 1 PhD student). The research in this group relies on brain imaging to addressthe relation between episodic and spatial memory and the hippocampus, the role of variousgenes (e.g., ApoE, COMT) to these functions and to the brain structure, and how autobiographicalmemory is affected by depression and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Researchby the senior member of the group has been published in well regarded journals (e.g., Hippocampus,Neurobiology of Aging, Neuropsychologia, Neuroimage, Psychopharmacology).A number of individual researchers (or researchers with their main research contacts outsideof the department) have produced high-quality research in the general area of perception andcognition. One line of research that investigates the factors that limit visual short-termmemory, measuring the visual short-term memory precision for individual items in order totest memory models, has produced publications in Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences (PNAS) and Experimental Brain Research. An older line of research concerned withdynamic event perception of the mass of colliding objects addressed from a Gibsonian perspective,has been influential over the years and produced several publications, including onein Psychological Review. One researcher, concerned with transportation safety, predictingindividual differences in safety, and evaluating interventions, has produced a long list of pub-2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology3lished articles and a book published in 2009. An applied line of research related to many ofthe basic research issues at the department is concerned with Environmental Psychology andenvironmental factors that promote recreation in particular (1 professor). The main body ofthis research is however evaluated at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research.One research group employing experimental and correlational designs adopts personality andsocial psychological perspectives for explaining phenomena like stereotyping and prejudices(1 PhD, 1 PhD student). From a personality view, the research includes predictors fromthe Big-Five model, complemented by variables measuring adherence to ideologies. From asocial psychological perspective the research involves the effects of, for example, group identificationand concepts from social cognition, like stereotype knowledge and associativestrength. The group collaborates with research groups like Project Implicit (e.g., Dr Nosek,University of Virginia) and publishes in high profile journals like Psychological Science,Journal of Personality, and Journal of Research of Personality. The senior member of thegroup has received a Prize from The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Psychology).The research group concerned with affective neuroscience in general, and anxiety disordersin particular, spans over clinical psychology, and brain imaging to imaging genetics. The aimis to characterize and understand how functional and neurochemical brain processes are relatedto brain structure in normal and pathological emotions. (2 professors interacting with 4-5Ph. D. students and post-docs within the department, and an equal or larger number outside ofthe department). The research involves brain imaging and multitracer studies combining neuroreceptorPET with functional BOLD fMRI and imaging genetics. One senior member of thegroup has received a Prize from The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Psychology). Articlesfrom the project have been published in high ranking journals like Archives of GeneralPsychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Neuroscience and American Journal of Psychiatryas well as NeuroImaging. A second clinical research group is concerned with experimentalintervention studies (prevention and treatment) within a frame of social cognitive andbehavioral theory of learning (1 professor, 6 PhD students). The aim is to contribute to moreeffective treatment of psychological conditions and implementation of evidence-based treatment.The research has produced a long list of published articles and was recognized with anaward in 2008 to the senior member for significant clinical contributions, the Swedish Associationfor Behavior Therapy Award. A line of clinical psychology at the department that isjust starting up involves cooperation between a senior lecturer and multiple agents the MedicalFaculty and investigates psychological treatment of depression, irritable bowel syndrome(IBS), pain, and suicide prevention. Another senior lecturer is involved in research on cognitivebehavioral treatment of a range of chronic illnesses such as chronic pain, epilepsy,asthma, intestinal disorders, diabetes, and “burn out”. The clinical research at the departmentis also linked to a research group on behavioral medicine and physiotherapy at the Departmentof Neuroscience/Physical Therapy, at the Faculty of Medicine, concerned with issuesrelated to health and self-care within a bio-psycho-social framework (2 professors, 9 PhD, 5PhD-students). This research is however evaluated as part of the Faculty of Medicine.Hindering Factors and Suggested Actions for Promoting ResearchA main challenge for the department has been—and continues to be—to replace an aging andretiring academic staff with new competent teachers and researchers, and this in an environmentwith increasing competition for the most qualified personnel. Fortunately, several importantrecruitments have been made in the last year that offers continuation of successful researchtraditions at the department. The recruitment of talented researchers from other universitieshowever remains a key issue for assuring long run quality. A balanced research profileacross the subareas of Psychology is also a worthwhile ambition, considering that the researchat the department currently leans towards developmental and clinical psychology2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology4The main actions that are voiced by senior researchers to improve the department’s research,essentially relate to two issues; decreased administrative load, and improved scientific exchangeboth within the department and within the university as a whole. Several senior researcherssuggest that an important action that might improve the quality of research is transferringadministrative tasks from researchers to administration staff in order to obtain moreresearch time. It is noted that also within the teaching obligation there are many administrativetasks that could easily be done by other personnel than the professors to reduce the workload,including scheduling and scoring exams. The second main concern is with the lack ofresearch seminars and scientific exchange between the groups at the department. Much of thescientific interaction takes place in lab meetings within the groups and there has been no forumfor scientific debates and exchange of theoretical and methodological ideas (actions toremedy this situation have already been taken during the spring of 2011). It is also pointed outthat to some extent these problems extend beyond the psychology department in terms of alack of formal and informal collaboration and connections to the closely situated clinics at theUniversity Hospital and the academic departments at the Faculty of Medicine tied to these.Most senior researchers do not express any concern about lack of funding, except that it itwould be useful to have more PhD positions that are funded by the university (rather than byexternal grants). Suggested actions thus involve reduction of administrative load, increasedcommunication between research groups, and more university-funded PhD-positions.Interdisciplinary Activities and NetworksAs might be inferred from the description of the research activities, the research groups areconnected to a large number of international and national research groups, some of which involveother disciplines. Accordingly, here we can only provide examples rather than a completelist of such networks. The Babylab is engaged in a Marie-Curie ITN devoted to developmentalrobotics (RobotDoc) and in other Marie Curie grants (RobotCub & TACT) focusingon European interdisciplinary collaborations. Within Sweden the Babylab has an ongoing collaborationwith the Uppsala University Hospitals neonatology department focusing on prematurelyborn infants, with Karolinska Institute (KIND) where the siblings of children withAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will be investigated (started January 2011), and with Tobiitechnology (the world leading producer of eye trackers for the scientific market).The music psychology group collaborates with acousticians, educators, musicologists, andmusicians and were recently involved in an interdisciplinary project which aimed to explorepsychological and neurobiological mechanisms through which music can influence physicalhealth and subjective well-being (e.g., reducing stress). The research on judgment and decisionmaking has recently been linked with the natural sciences (physics & engineering) interms of the cross-disciplinary consortium on renewable energy research (called STandUP).The research group on the organization of human memory in the brain collaborates with researcherswithin medicine, both at the Medical Faculty in Uppsala and the Karolinska Institute,Stockholm. The affective neuroscience group collaborates nationally with psychologydepartments in Linköping and Umeå, with the Department of pharmacology at Göteborg university,and internationally with research groups at Duke university, University of Michigan,and Harvard medical school. The other research groups concerned with clinical psychologylikewise have intense and continuous cooperation with partners in the Medical Faculty.From some points of view, the organizational placement of the department of psychologywithin the faculty of social sciences has never been ideal, considering that most of the cooperationis related to departments in the medical faculty, and to some extent the science faculty,but very little cooperation involves the social sciences. At the same time, given the heterogeneityof the research that is performed within Psychology, it is questionable whether the currentorganizational system of Uppsala University affords a much better placement.2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology5A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities. ii) List institutions orgroups nationally and internationally, which are considered suitable for benchmarking(in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state the department’s view on its ownstanding in comparison to these.KoF07 identified developmental psychology, judgment and decision making, and affectiveneuroscience as particularly strong research areas at the department, in an environment generallyperceived to have a very high quality of research. Much of the successful research wasperformed in research groups where the senior researchers were to retire, in particular in regardto research groups concerned with developmental psychology. A concern expressed inKoF07 was therefore with how these successful activities should be maintained. A number ofrecruitments in recent years have served to bridge this gap, allowing this research to maintainits position at the forefront of the research activities at the department. In addition, new recruitmentshave allowed the research on emotion and facial expressions, music psychology,and clinical psychology to get a firmer basis at the department allowing also these activitiesto enter the forefront of research at the department, both in terms of quality and quantity. Asdetailed in Section A1 there are also smaller research constellations, or researchers with theirresearch collaboration outside of the department, that produce research of very high quality.The Babylab has pioneered investigation of anticipation/prediction during action control andaction understanding in infancy and, for the first time, demonstrated that infants anticipate thegoal of their own reaching actions, and the goal of others’ manual actions in accordance withthe direct matching hypothesis of action understanding. Among other things, the Babylab hasalso shown that the mirror neuron system becomes active during action execution and actionobservation in young infants. Goal prediction abilities are intact in autistic children while faceprocessing abilities are impaired, which argues against the notion that a deficient mirror neuronsystem is a core component of ASD. In addition, studies of motion processing (EEG) havedemonstrated a substantial reorganization of visual areas between infancy and adulthood. TheBabylab can be compared with Center for Brain and Cognitive Development (Birkbeck, Universityof London) and the Rochester Babylab (University of Rochester). The group addressingdevelopmental psychopathology has contributed new insights on the developmental <strong>aspects</strong>of executive functions, like the non-synchronic mastering of executive inhibition andworking memory; the structure and function of working memory in children, including a theoreticalframework for the development of working memory functioning; the heterogeneity ofcognitive functioning of children diagnosed with ADHD; gender differences in problem stabilityand the social consequences of hyperactivity. The ADHD research is comparable to thatof the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Free University in Amsterdam and thework on development of working memory with that of Department of Psychology, Universityof York, although both of these groups have a longer history of research in their fields. Finally,the work on socioemotional development is comparable with that of research groupswithin the large School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.The research on emotion and facial expressions has extensively and systematically demonstratedthat facial electromyographic activities reflect different emotional reactions. By developinga model that describes how the facial muscles are both voluntarily and involuntarilycontrolled it is shown that the facial muscles are unconsciously controlled by biologicallygiven facial “affect programs”. These are the mechanisms behind emotional communicationand contagion, and in particular behind empathy and empathic reactions. By developinga new technique to study facial feedback it is possible to study some specific mechanismsbehind emotional reactions. The research group concerned with music psychology has developedthe first integrated framework that may explain how sounds (musical or otherwise)evoke emotions in listeners in terms of a set of psychological mechanisms and 66 hypotheses2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology6regarding their characteristics (published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences). This frameworkis currently tested in a unique methodological approach that involves an interplay betweenfield studies and experimental studies, achieving representative sampling of subjects (survey),situations (experience sampling), and music (experiments with music sampled from databases),respectively. The music psychology group in Uppsala could perhaps be compared withthe BRAMS group in Montreal, Canada (although that group is considerably larger).Two examples of successful research activities in regard to the group concerned with humanjudgment and decision making is the research on the naïve sampling model of confidence,which has been related both to working memory capacity, aging, and an applied procedure toreduce overconfidence, and the research on linear additive probability integration. Both linesof research that serve to reinterpret what are the key-cognitive constraints on human judgmenthave produced recent publications in Psychological Review. The research can perhaps becompared to that of the ABC-group at MPI in Berlin, Germany, and of the ELSE-center,UCL, London, UK, although these centers are larger in terms of personnel. In regard to theresearch on organization of human memory in the brain the cooperation with BrianLevine, Rotman Research Institute (Canada) assessing ECT effects on memory in a way thathas not been done before is likely to have impact. This work is similar to that of HaroldSackeim, Columbia University, except that it also assesses ECT effects on brain function duringretrieval. In regard to the research on transportation safety the application of metaanalysisto traffic safety research have resulted in many novel findings in the book publishedin 2009.A successful line of research by the group concerned with stereotyping and prejudices combinesthe concept of stability in personality with change emerging from situational factors,showing that the mean levels of psychological variables are highly changeable while the rankorderof individuals remains stable. Extending this research, a model incorporating personalityin self-categorization theory was proposed. Another line of research shows that personalityand social psychological variables explain distinct <strong>aspects</strong> of prejudice. The research can becompared to other personality and social psychology groups in Sweden (e.g., Lund &Linköping) and internationally (e.g., Duckitt & Sibley, University of Auckland).The research group concerned with affective neuroscience and anxiety disorders has recentlyidentified a genetic mediator of the placebo effect. The search for the genetic underpinningsof the placebo effect was under way in numerous laboratories across the world and the researchgroup in Uppsala was the first to publish it. Although generally equipped with largerbudgets the research group lead by Professor Stein at the Department of Psychiatry and MentalHealth at the University of Cape Town and the research group lead by Nick Van Der Weeat the Leiden University, Medical Center, Leiden, Holland, have comparable research agendas.The research group characterized by experimental intervention studies (preventionand treatment) has produced research on the treatment of eating disorder at the frontline ofresearch, comparable to research at the University of Oxford, UK (Department of Psychiatry).The department’s profile of successful research, considered in terms of the larger researchgroups, has, if anything, become somewhat broader since KoF07 and by large the replacementso far of retiring senior researcher has been successful, assuring quality and continuity. Ifthere is a potential weakness in the development of the department’s research profile it is thatno major new research activities have been initiated by new, external recruitments at the senior(professor) level, and that, in terms of personnel, the research has become increasinglydominated by developmental and clinical psychology (app. 2/3 of the faculty), a tendency thatto some extent has been accentuated by the actions taken in the aftermath of the KoF07. Con-2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology7sidering that most of the “benchmarks” suggested by the research groups are larger in terms ofbudget and personnel the research output of the department seems more than adequate.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspectiveof 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of theseresearch directions would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. interms of proportion between different categories of researchers and other personnel.The research group at the Babylab emphasizes that understanding the connection betweenaction and perception will be paramount to understanding human development. A related importantfuture direction includes investigating how cognitive processes are influenced by dynamicinteraction with others (peers and parents) early in development. The Babylab aims toexpand its research on brain development in these areas using EEG and NIRS, with the intentto integrate behavioral and neuropsychological research. In addition, much information abouttypical and atypical development can be achieved by studying children with ASD, siblings ofchildren with ASD, and prematurely born infants. The research group addressing developmentalpsychopathology suggests that current activities, promising to yield important newknowledge, concern pitting theories of attachment, EF and ADHD against each other in predictionof outcomes. Other areas for expansion concern the emerging field of effects of theenvironment on executive functions and the interactive effects of emotions and executivefunctions. Another promising area concerns infant development of executive functions.Promising research suggested by the group addressing emotion and facial expressions duringthe next coming 5-10 years is to specifically study causal mechanisms in the origin of empathyand empathic reactions. In particular, the research methods that have been developed bythe group seem promising for the study of clinically relevant groups. In a novel project(MECWORK), the group concerned with music psychology will develop experimental paradigmsfor activating specific psychological mechanisms to evoke emotions using multiplemeasures of emotions (e.g., self-report, voice, psychophysiology, implicit measures). Anotherproject currently in the making involves combining the Experience Sampling Method withsmall and sound-activated recorders to obtain representative samples of sounds—such as vocalemotion expressions—from everyday life. These samples can be related to data about thesituations to test different emotion theories, compare spontaneous and strategic emotional expressions,and explore how sounds influence stress and mood across time in daily life.The research group on human judgment and decision making highlights that, while mostresearch on judgment and decision making takes the perspective from an “ivory tower of infinitesample sizes”, emphasizing long run “expected” return and asymptotic results, people ingeneral live in the twilight of small samples, having to live with outcomes in the “short run”.A premise of future research is that climbing down this ivory tower is crucial to understandjudgment processes and to capture the human risk attitude and, possibly also, the wisdom embodiedtherein, something that remains a sore toe of decision research. The group will alsoexplore the relationship between numeracy and the ability to make informed judgments anddecisions. Finally, the basic research will be increasingly applied to issues of energy efficiencyin the context of the STandUp-project. The research group on organization of humanmemory in the brain point to the importance of studying episodic memory process (encoding,consolidation, retrieval) and how these are implemented at the neural level (both in termsof structure and the interaction between structures and neural “schedule”). Interpersonal variationin performance, related to variation in brain structure and genetics are also likely to bestudied, as well as intrapersonal activation pattern variation from one scanning occasion toanother. Another exciting field is the neural finger print of a memory. The research on transportationsafety emphasizes theoretical development and implementation of technical driver2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology8measurements in feedback systems (in transportation fleets and insurance companies). Drivermeasurements have the potential to identify dangerous drivers before they cause accidents.The research group addressing stereotyping and prejudices point out that the study of socialattitudes and behavior is undergoing a fundamental change with single-approach (e.g., social,personality, or cognitive) theories being found incapable to explain the phenomena. The 5-10years ahead will be the era of hybrid theories and the end of the long lasting single-approachorienteddebate about person versus situation effects in group behavior. The group will contributeto this new era and recent theoretical work on integrating person and situation factorsis promising The research group concerned with affective neuroscience and anxiety disordersenvisions that the most important promising research agendas involve expanding the researchareas in brain imaging to include multi-tracer evaluations of normal and aberrant behavioralfunctions, as well as connecting imaging genetics with structural and functional information.The research group on experimental intervention studies (prevention and treatment) proposesthat research on genetic, hormonal and neurocognitive underpinnings of anorexia nervosais a promising line of research. Refinement of parent management training programs andthe investigation of mediating and moderating variables in such programs, as well as psychotherapyfor eating disorders are identified as other promising research areas.Ways to Promote Promising ResearchAs already noted in a section A1, the researchers at the department identify too much administrativeburden, limited exchange between research groups within the department and betweendepartments at the university, and to limited university funding of PhD students, asgeneral impediments for successful research. A number of recent actions aim to amend theseproblems, and the economic situation has distinctly improved, increasing the chances of providinguniversity funding for PhD students and research time for promoted professors.It is also likely that to achieve many of the research goals listed above large-scale projects areneeded, organized at a European level. The support structures for the writing of large-scalegrants need to be further expanded to facilitate first-grade applications. Several researchgroups also identify the need for additional laboratory space and specialized technical equipmentsuch as, for example, resources to build a modern psychophysiology laboratory and tohave persons continuously working at the laboratory, or technical resources for the on-linereporting of data from palmtops to a central department computer via the internet. Many ofthese suggested actions for promoting research were discussed already in KoF07.As perhaps suggested by the relative heterogeneity of the research described here, the traditionalresearch policy at the department has been that of having one large organizational unit(“the department”), where research groups arise “bottom up” spontaneously and informally asa function of successful competition for openly announced positions and for external funding,rather than from deliberate “top down” strategies orchestrated by the department. This policyhas served the department well in the past and is still popular among its staff. But repeatedlyover the years, the issue of a reorganization and restructuring of the department into morepermanent subunits to promote research and enhance contact between research and teachinghas been raised, as it was in KoF07: “…restructuring the department into larger focused researchunits…(KoF07, p. 162). This alternative is favored by parts of the academic staff, butremains controversial and has not as yet accrued sufficient acceptance. The reluctance is connectedto the perception of problems with how to define these subunits, the risk that smallerresearch constellations become marginalized and the threat of (even) less contact between thedifferent research directions at the department. The issue of the organization of the departmentis actualized again by an increasing tension between a formal organization into a singleunit, while resources are increasingly channeled through the more informal structure of re-2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology9search groups (e.g., as it was after KoF07). The question of how to best organize the departmentto promote research and teaching remains a both important and controversial issue.A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Akrami, N., Ekehammar, B., & Bergh, R. (2011). Generalized prejudice: Common and specificcomponents. Psychological Science, 22, 57-59.Brocki, K. C. , Eninger, Thorell, L., & Bohlin, G. (2010). Interrelations Between ExecutiveFunction and Symptoms of Hyperactivity/Impulsivity and Inattention in Preschoolers: ATwo Year Longitudinal Study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 163-171.Dimberg, U., Thunberg, M. & Elmehed, K.,(2000). Unconscious Facial Reactions to EmotionalFacial Expressions. Psychological Science, 11, 86-89.Dimberg, U. & Soderkvist, S. (2011). The Voluntary Facial Action Technique: A Method toTest the Facial Feedback Hypothesis. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 35, 17–33.Falck-Ytter, T., Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2006). Infants Predict Other People's ActionGoals. Nature Neuroscience, 9 (7), 878-879.Furmark, T., Tillfors, M., Marteinsdottir, I., Fischer, H., Pissiota, A., Långström. B., & Fredrikson,M. (2002). Common changes in cerebral blood flow in patients with socialphobia treated with citalopram or cognitive-behavioral therapy. Archives of GeneralPsychiatry, 59, 425-433.Ghaderi, A. (2006). Does individualization matter? A randomized trial of standardized (focused)versus individualized (broad) cognitive behavior therapy for bulimia nervosa.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 273-288.Hewage C, Bohlin, G., Wijewardena, K. & Lindmark, G. (2011). Executive Functions andChild Problem Behaviors are Sensitive to Family Disruption: A Study of Children ofMothers Working Overseas. Developmental Science, 14, 18-25.Juslin, P., Winman, A., & Hansson, P. (2007). The naive intuitive statistician: A naïve samplingmodel of intuitive confidence intervals. Psychological Review, 114, 678-703.Juslin, P. N., & Laukka, P. (2003). Communication of emotions in vocal expression and musicperformance: Different channels, same code? Psychological Bulletin, 129, 770-814.2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology10A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Furmark, T., Appel, L., Henningsson, S., Åhs, F., Faria, V., Linnman, C., Pissiota, A., Frans,Ö., Bani, M., Bettica, P., Jacobsson, E., Wahlstedt, K., Oreland, L., Långström, B.,Eriksson, E., & Fredrikson, M. (2008). A link between serotonin-related gene polymorphisms,amygdala activity and placebo-induced relief from social anxiety. Journal ofNeuroscience, 28, 13066-13074.Juslin, P. N., & Västfjäll, D. (2008). Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlyingmechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 559-575.Juslin, P., Nilsson, H., & Winman, A. (2009). Probability theory, not the very guide of life.Psychological Review, 116, 856-874.Nyström, P., Ljunghammar, T., Rosander, K. von Hofsten, C. (2011). Using mu rhythm perturbationsto measure mirror neuron activity in infants. Developmental Science, 14, 327-335.Söderlund, H., Kumar, N., Mandic, M., Moscovitch, M., & Levine, B. (in press). As timegoes by – Hippocampal connectivity changes with remoteness of autobiographicalmemory retrieval. Hippocampus.A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.(not used)2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology11A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previous researchassessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university or facultylevel, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effects or implicationsof KoF07 for the department.In KoF07 the general conclusion was that “The psychology department as a whole is an outstandingdepartment with several research constellations with the highest international competitiveness.”(KoF07, p. 159). The main challenge that was identified was to address thetransition implied by many of the leading researchers going into retirement in the upcomingyears (in 2007). Additional suggestions were to improve the institutionalized infrastructure forresearch, including access to psychometric and statistical expertise; evaluation of members atthe department based on explicit merit criteria (e.g., external funding, publications); increasedresearch assignments to the promoted professors; improved cooperation between different areasat the university; and co-organization of courses between Stockholm and Uppsala.In regard to the transition implied by retirement, the department received extra funding fromthe Faculty of Social Sciences (the super ordinate administrative level at the university) forrecruitment of two lecturers. One of these lecturers was a replacement for the retiring ProfessorClaes von Hofsten as the supervisor of the Babylab. The other lecturer was intended toassist the transition when Professor Bo Ekehammar, concerned with stereotyping and prejudices,was retiring. Both of these announced positions lead to successful recruitments, althoughthe latter position was not effectively occupied until 2010. Recently a lecturer positiondirected at developmental psychopathology was successfully recruited. Independently ofKoF07, three full (chair) professors have been recruited and appointed, one to a member ofthe research group at the Babylab, one to a member of the group addressing affective neuroscience,and one to a researcher concerned with emotion and facial expressions. New seniorlecturers have been recruited, three of which have been promoted to Professors, one in musicpsychology and two in clinical psychology (another promoted professor died in 2010). Finally,due to retirements the entire leadership of the department has been replaced (e.g., thehead of the department, the directors of the undergraduate and graduate studies). The transition-retirementproblem has thereby largely been accommodated in recent years. The need torelocate the department deemed urgent in KoF07 contributed to the move to a new building.In regard to the other suggestions, the Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed a pair of statisticalconsults that free of charge is available to all departments within the faculty. The possibilitiesto extend the time allocated to research for promoted professors (e.g., from 20 % to50%) has been limited by the fact that the reform introducing promoted professors came withno funding whatsoever. The more recent system for funding of the chair professors introducedat the university however allows the head of the department larger freedom in distributing theresources dedicated to research (e.g., in principle, allowing the resources for research originallydedicated to a chair professor to be redistributed to a promoted professor). The budgetsituation at the department is currently positive, leaving room for reform, and in the plan forthe next few years lays both funding increased possibilities for promoted professors to allocatetheir time to research, and more faculty-based (university funded) PhD positions. Moregenerally, to increase the time allocated to research for the promoted professors is a generalambition at Uppsala University. The whole system for recruitment, academic positions, andpromotion is currently under review and the reforms implied by this review are not clear yet.The co-ordination of courses between the Departments of Psychology at Uppsala University,Stockholm University, and Karolinska institutet has been discussed between representativesof the departments, but has not materialized in concrete coordination yet. Nor has a formalevaluation scheme of the members of the department yet been institutionalized. As noted al-2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology12ready in Section A3, to somehow restructure the department into more permanent subunits, asdiscussed in Kof07, has been debated but not yet accrued sufficient support. Perhaps it shouldalso be kept in mind that less than 3 ½ years have elapsed since KoF07 was published.This section also asks for other effects or implications of KoF07 for the department. KoF07generally raised attention to the transition-retirement problem in a useful way and the modestincrease in funding (two lecturers for four years) explicitly motivated by KoF07 is an obviousbenefit to the department. The positive evaluation was of course also, explicitly or implicitly,a strong position from which to negotiate the distributions of resources in a number of situationsand there may therefore be additional beneficial consequences of KoF07 for the departmentthat are not explicitly attributed to KoF07, although this is more difficult to know. Othersenior researchers explicitly acknowledge that in view of the outcome of KoF07 they havechanged their strategies to maximize the chances to get external funding, and to make thegeneral health care system to participate in research and to contribute financially.But all implications of KoF07 need not have been beneficial to the department. Although improvedknowledge and evaluation of the research at the department as such may be inherentlyuseful, they come at a cost and the problem of translating the outcome of an evaluation intoappropriate actions may not be trivial. In regard to the matter of cost, one of the key limitingfactors for successful research and teaching that is repeatedly raised—both at the departmentand at the university as a whole—are the increasing demands for administration and control ofactivities (e.g., evaluations). An opinion raised by many members of the faculty at the departmentis that repetition of a KoF-evaluation with a 4-years interval is not well advised, giventhese costs and inherent limits of the interpretation with such short time intervals (i.e., theuse of new panel members is likely to explain at least as much variance in the evaluation, asany true state-changes at the department in a four year interval). It is likely that similar informationby large can be obtained simpler by a bibliometric analysis and other statistics.Another criticism raised by members of the faculty is that the actions after KoF07 spent alleffort on ‘rewarding’ the largest groups, which did little too strengthen the overall researchprofile of the department and that it would have been more fruitful to support promising directionswhich needed a ‘boost’ in order to take off and become thriving groups alongside theestablished ones. This point illustrates a more subtle, but yet important, effect of KoF07. Thepolicy for recruitment and research administration at the department prior to KoF07 was generallydriven by the aim to satisfy the need for competence implied by the courses given at thedepartment and the ambition to attract the most talented psychological scientists possible. Researchgroups therefore mainly grew “bottom up” on a competitive market, rather than beingorchestrated “top down” by a distribution of resources to targeted research groups. Indeed, inpart at least, this policy may have contributed to the positive evaluation in KoF07. WithKoF07, and the ensuing emphasis on the transition-retirement problem at the level of researchgroups, this has subtly changed into a policy where the recruitments often are targeted to theneeds of specific research groups, with the associated potential for conflicts of interest withinthe department, and in practice also an increased rate of internal (in house) recruitments. But,arguably, “reproducing” the current research groups is not an end in itself, and if members ofresearch groups cannot compete for positions, unless they are tailor-made for them, this policymay also have adverse long run consequences. Although top-down allocation appears a naturalconsequence of an evaluation like KoF07, it is open to debate whether such policy effectsof KoF07, if they become entrenched in the department’s policy or are reinforced by repeatedKoFs, are truly beneficial to the department in the long run. This illustrates the complexitiesof translating the outcome of an evaluation into actions and that the “top down” poking in thedepartment’s activities invited by KoF-evaluations may have both good and adverse effects.2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology13A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsDr Nazar Akrami, 40 years, male, 2007, Annual Award to an Outstanding Young Researcherin Psychology from The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences atThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Dr Karin Brocki, 34 years, female, 2009, Annual Award to an Outstanding Young Researcherin Psychology from The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences atThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Professor Ata Ghaderi, 41 years, male, 2008, Award for Significant Clinical Contributionfrom the Swedish Association for Behavior Therapy.Professor Patrik Juslin, 39 years, male, 2008, Lutteman’s Scholarship 2008, ‘awarded to oneof the faculty’s more distinguished associate professors at Uppsala University’.Professor Peter Juslin, 44 years, male, The Torgny Segerstedt Medallion Awarded to DistinguishedSocial Scientist at Uppsala University.Dr Petri Laukka, 38 years, male, 2009, The Oscar’s Prize at Uppsala University.Senior Professor Claes von Hofsten, 65 years, male, 2008, Kurt Koffka Medal from Departmentof Psychology at GiessenUniversity.Senior Professor Claes von Hofsten, , 66 years, male, 2009, Honorary Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.Senior Professor Claes von Hofsten, 67 years, male, 2010, Fellow of the Association forPsychologcal Science.A9. Additional sources of informationGeneral information about research:http://www.psyk.uu.se/research/Information about research groups:http://www.psyk.uu.se/research/researchgroups/Information about research projects:http://www.psyk.uu.se/research/research_projects/Information about the researchers:http://www.psyk.uu.se/research/researchers/Professor Per Lindberg has been affiliated with the department for only two years and his researchis evaluated by the panel for the Department of Neuroscience. The research by thisgroup is described on:http://www.neuro.uu.se/forskning/forskargrupp.html&id=60Professor Terry Hartig is 20 % affiliated at the department and his research is evaluated at theat the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and described on:http://www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/terry/terry.html2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology14<strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesB1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberNumber ofindividualscontributingPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 29 9Invited talks at international conferences 48 25Assignment in research councils and foundations 12 8Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturerpositions20-30 App. 10Assignment as editor or member of editorial boards 25 18Member of international scientific councils 4 4Member of academies and learned societies 8 8Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Arranging conferences8 8B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 5 1Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 33 2Number of granted external funds for new projects 57Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 7Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 4Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 43Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientificexpeditions, field work etc.):……………….1 This number includes 3 announced job openings and 2 time-limited appointments.2 This number includes 14 announced job openings and 19 time-limited appointments.2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology15B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 0Popular science papers/books 22Textbooks 7Spin-off commercial companies 1Governmental/societal assignments 3Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.):……………….2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University <strong>KoF11</strong>, Department of Psychology16<strong>Part</strong> C: Dataextracted from common databasesNote! <strong>Part</strong> C will be distributed to the departments no later than Dec. 10, 2010, forcomments from the departments if motivated.Data will then be updated in Feb. 2011, and made available to the external experts onMar. 1, 2011<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to the departmentsno later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It should ratherreflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).Text (optional, if you have specific comments on data in part C)…2011-02-28 Dept of Psychology v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchDept of Informatics and MediaA1.i) Primary missions, goals and current research activitiesThe digitization of society’s information and communication structures has fundamentallychanged everyday life, economy, business and society. Internet and mobile technology hasmade information and services, accessible by all regardless of time and place, taken forgranted. Increased globalization and new open forms of collaboration continue to change theplaying field at an ever-increasing rate. Although the rapid evolution of the informationsociety is shaped by digital technology and media convergence, contemporary societalprocesses of openness, responsibility, democratization and global communication are alsoshaping that very same technology. In the midst of this stands the Department of Informaticsand Media, with the explicit ambition to further understand these phenomena and to be anactive voice in their development. As a reconstruction of the Department of InformationScience, the department was created in July 2009 to present a combination of competencestailored to achieve this mission. The department is structured around the academic disciplinesof Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Systems (IS), and Media andCommunication Studies (MCS). Supported by the Faculty, a new head of department wasrecruited along with a chaired professor for each academic discipline. This enabled a kickstartand the department has already established itself as a key player both nationally andinternationally. For example, it is a founding member of the Swedish Information SystemsAcademy (SISA, www.sisa-net.se), it plays a leading role in the Swedish Research School onManagement and IT (MIT, www.forskarskolan-mit.nu), it has been ranked as the top ISuniversity department in the Nordic countries based on research output 1 , and it has alreadyattracted external research funding of almost 10 million SEK.Current externally funded projects study open innovation and open source practices;surveillance, privacy and the political economy in the context of Web 2.0 and social media,especially in the areas of advertising and business models; and online services forpsychosocial care and eHealth. In addition, there are a number of internally funded activities,including the development of programming environments for compositional-relationalprogramming in an agile methods context, political communication and the role of media inwar and conflicts, IS development and conceptual modelling in the context of informationinfrastructures and the so-called “Internet of things”, organizations and corporate governancein the mediatized society, and communication culture in professional and everyday life.Additionally, the department’s 13 PhD students research topics such as, sustainable (green)IS/IT, privacy and surveillance on Facebook, interactivity on newspaper websites, IS successfactors, game development, mobile phone use in development countries, and multi-touchtechnology.1 http://vvenkatesh.com/ISRanking/RankingsAIS6byUni.asp?RYear=3 (as per 2011-02-04)2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>ii) Actions for improving the quality of the department’s researchA number of activities have been initiated to fertilize research culture in the department, themost important of which is the ongoing work on a common, directed research strategy inwhich a balance between strategic management and academic freedom is struck. The workincludes a publication framework: primarily how to encourage faculty to publish in journalsof strategic importance to the department. Other issues that are currently being addressedinclude: fostering a seminar culture, research proposal quality, visiting scholars, recruitmentof qualified faculty and Ph.D. students, faculty teaching load, administrative support androutines, content of the Ph.D. program, and physical limitations to expansion. To ensurecommitment, the department, through the newly established professors’ council, seeks tostimulate individual research initiatives and contributions to the department’s future direction.iii) Interdisciplinary activities and networksAll active researchers in the department maintain their own national and international researchnetworks which, by the very nature of the department, are all to some extent interdisciplinary.These include participation in international groups, such as various IFIP working groups, AIS,and ACM, and collaboration with colleagues at Case Western Reserve University (Lyytinen),New York University (Robles), Indiana University Bloomington (Hakken, Stolterman),Rutgers University (Aakhus), Northeastern University (Breen), Aarhus University(Albrechtslund), Technical University of Denmark (Nilsson), University of Limerick(Fitzgerald), City University London (Maiden), University of Amsterdam (Boersma),University of Salzburg (Sandoval), Tel-Aviv University (Te’eni), University of Queensland(Foth), and University of Technology, Sydney (Henderson-Sellers), to name but a few. Inaddition to these informal, but very important networks, the department partakes in a numberof more formal ones.At the national level, the department’s involvement in SISA, which coordinates theinformatics/information systems departments in Sweden, puts it in the middle of a nationalnetwork consisting of twelve university departments. Since 2009, the department also hostsNITA – The Swedish IT-User Centre (www.nita.uu.se) with an extensive network in Swedishacademy and industry. With Prof. Ågerfalk as Dean of MIT, the department has additionalclose collaboration with a number of informatics and business studies departments. Thedepartment also has an established collaboration with the department of Game Developmentat Gotland University, including a number of affiliated PhD students. In 2011, the departmentwill host the annual meeting of the Swedish Association of Media and CommunicationStudies (FSMK).At the European level, the department is active in a Nordforsk funded open source softwareresearch network (NordicOSS) involving partners from all Nordic countries. In terms ofvisibility on the European arena, the department will host FSVG’11 – The First AnnualMeeting of the French-Swedish Video Game Research Collaboration, IRIS 35 – the 2012Information systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, and the 3 rd Scandinavian Conferenceon Information Systems (SCIS’2012). Furthermore, through Prof. Fuchs, the department isinvolved in an EU COST Action, an Austrian project, and a number of EU proposals.2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>At an international level, the department’s formal networks include representation on theeditorial boards of journals, such as European Journal of Information Systems (SeniorAssociate Editor), Information Systems Journal (Associate Editor), and Scandinavian Journalof Information Systems (Co-editor). The department is also hosting the Association forInformation Systems Special Interest Group on Pragmatist Research (AIS SIGPrag,www.sigprag.org). In 2009 Uppsala University hosted the IFIP TC 13 conferenceINTERACT. The department is also a member of the International League of HigherEducation in Media and Communication (www.mleague2009.org). In 2011, the departmentwill host the international conference Global Media Worlds and China.A2.i) Current, particularly successful research activitiesThe overall goal of the research in the department is to describe and analyze the ways inwhich information technology/digital media is developed and used. The research focuses onnew media, services and forms of interaction where social interaction is seen as a startingpoint rather than an effect of new technologies. The aim is to, on sound social science,business and socio-technical bases, contribute to the development and dissemination oftheories, methods and techniques associated with the creation of flexible and useful services,information infrastructures and systems for a sustainable information society. Previousresearch has mainly focused on either the technical, economic or social <strong>aspects</strong> of thisdevelopment. <strong>Part</strong>icipating in this development, however, requires an informatics thatscaffolds an understanding of the digital at the levels of individuals, groups, organizations andsociety at large. The department’s three disciplines cover these levels and give a possibility toreach synergies, and support perspectives and combination of design-oriented and criticalperspectives for interactions, systems, business, and media development to appear as differentfacets of the evolving information society. Current, particularly successful research activitiescan best be described in terms of three partly overlapping research streams.Open PracticesResearch within this stream focuses on open practices in software development, innovation,and society in general. A prime example of this is the study of open source software in acommercial context and corporate use of open source. Other research activities include thedevelopment of a framework to understand open innovation practices and tools. A currentinterest is the application of open source principles beyond software development, thusaddressing the intersection of open source, open innovation and open practices in general –with a concrete example being the application of successful open source practices to thenewspaper industry and medical R&D. Another example is the use of open innovationpractices in health care. This work is performed within a number of externally fundedprojects, including the VINNOVA-funded projects (a) Open Innovation Framework and (b)Innovation Implementation System for Better Health, and the FAS-funded projectManagement and Organization of Open Practices. Research in this stream has led topublications in journals such as MIS Quarterly and Knowledge Management & E-Learningand an international anthology on Managing Open Innovation Technologies is being edited(to be published by Springer). As an example of interaction with the international researchcommunity in the area, Prof. Ågerfalk served as co-program chair of the 6 th IFIP 2.13International Conference on Open Source Systems in 2010. In terms of online presence,www.openinnovationforum.com, developed in one of the VINNOVA projects, is worthmentioning.2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>Online <strong>Part</strong>icipation and PrivacyThe department’s research within this stream focuses on online participation, privacy, andonline services for psychosocial care. One prime example is the study of surveillance, privacyand the political economy in the context of Web 2.0 and social media as addressed throughEuropean-wide networking activities in the EU COST Action “Living in SurveillanceSocieties” (IS0807). Another related example is the research project “Social networking sitesin the surveillance society” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The aim of thisparticular project is to analyze the privacy and surveillance implications of social networkingsites, especially in the areas of advertising and business models. In relation to this, Prof. Fuchsis invited semi-plenary speaker at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference2011. The department also runs the FAS-funded project, Virtual Collaboration: Management,Driving Forces and Results, exploring how firms possess adequate skills to identify therelevance of external ideas, assimilate them and apply them to improve their value creationprocesses. An indication of the advancement of the department’s research excellence in thisarea is the fact that in the year 2011 several high-quality publications in this area will bepublished. These include three Routledge textbooks, papers, and special issues of journalssuch as The Communication Review. Adding to the ongoing activities, the department is alsodoing research within the Research Council (VR) funded project U-Care (www.u-care.uu.se)– a multi-disciplinary project in collaboration with the Department of Public Health andCaring Sciences and the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. To draw attentionto this stream of research, the department hosted the 3 rd International Conference on thePragmatic Web (ICPW 2008) in Uppsala, supported by ACM SIGWEB.Systems Development in an Agile WorldThe department’s research on information systems development acknowledges thecontemporary development context, which is characterised by system integration (informationsharing and service-oriented logic), globalization (off-shoring and global teams) and rapidlychanging prerequisites and requirements. These call for agile approaches that recognize theinfrastructural character of information systems and emphasize organizational resilience.<strong>Part</strong>icular focus is placed on socio-material ontology as a foundation for conceptualmodelling, database design and systems development coupled with management of agile anddistributed teams and flexible platforms and languages for systems development, includinghigh-level programming environments based on compositional-relational technology.Publications in this area have appeared in MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, Communicationsof the ACM, and other journals. As part of this research stream, Springer published an editedbook, Agility across Time and Space, in 2010 and a special issue of Information SystemsResearch on Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development appeared in 2009. Interms of community interaction, Prof. Wiberg is co-chairing the IS development track atECIS’2011, the same duty was carried out by Prof. Ågerfalk at ECIS’2008. Similarly, Prof.Lind was the Keynote Chair of INTERACT 2009.ii) Institutions suitable for benchmarking and the department’s own standingAt the national level, somewhat comparable academic environments are MEDEA atMalmö University and parts of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences atStockholm University. At an international level, some universities have formed similarunits, most significantly the U.S. “iSchools” (e.g. www.ischools.org). Among the moretraditional schools, we would look to the J Mack Robinson College of Business atGeorgia State University for inspiration. We would also consider the Oxford Internet2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>Institute as a good example of the kind of research environment we would like to nurture.In terms of benchmarking, the department arguably performs well in comparison withthese players. Certainly, it is not on par with the international top departments in allareas, but the specific combination of competences combined with strategic researchplanning puts it in a particularly good position to become world leader in the specificareas addressed. <strong>Part</strong> of the strategy to reach this ambitious goal is to engage with theabove players by, for example, inviting eminent scholars to grading committees, guestprofessorships, co-authorships, etc. As an example, Prof. Richard Baskerville of GeorgiaState University served as the expert opponent on the department’s most recent Ph.D.defence. The thesis is now nominated for the Börje Langefors Prize for the best SwedishPh.D. dissertation in Information Systems 2009–2010.A3. Promising research directions for the departmentAs outlined above, open practices, online participation and privacy, and systems developmentin an agile world are three well-established research streams in the department, which spanacross, and integrate the department’s three academic disciplines. Fundamental to thedepartment’s research program is an interest in the relation between informationtechnology/digital media, its use, and current challenges related to developments in society.Furthermore, the department addresses this through the development of concepts and modelsfor understanding, explaining and making sense of technology use, while at the same timestriving for a normative account in which the design of technology to serve various needs insociety is in focus. The department acknowledges that the information society is here, yet it isworryingly fragile in terms of ecological, social and economical concerns on the horizon. Thequestion then, is how to evolve the information society in a sustainable direction and how bestto cater for the digital reality of people and organizations in this age. Moving forward with themost promising research efforts at thedepartment along the three streams ofresearch, while drawing on relevant referencedisciplines, essentially becomes a journeytowards understanding and forming digital lifein a sustainable information society.Such a journey will include the analysis ofwhat has come to be termed social media andWeb 2.0, and the implications of this kind ofmedia for society. This allows for synergies Figur 1: The Department in Contextand interdisciplinary co-operation among thethree disciplines of the department. It also involves further research on social networking sites(Facebook, MySpace, etc), including a focus on political <strong>aspects</strong> of social media (e.g.WikiLeaks) and <strong>aspects</strong> of privacy and surveillance on Web 2.0. Activities in this area includeforthcoming edited volumes on Internet & Surveillance (Routledge), Online Territories (PeterLang) and a monograph on the Foundations of Media Studies (Routledge). The way in whichtechnology becomes embedded in our society and into our built environment is a line ofresearch at the department with great potential. Most recently this line of research has resultedin two journal papers (International Journal of Design and ACM Interactions), one textbook(IGI Global), and a newly established research collaboration with the school of Architecturein Umeå, including the crafting of a joint research proposal submitted to Formas onArchitectural Informatics as a national cross-university and cross-disciplinary collaboration.2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>This ties in well with another emerging line of research that involves the investigation ofsustainable IS, or what is sometimes called Green IT. This is an area where the departmenthas started to gain traction and recognition, including having a paper in the upcoming specialissue of the Journal of <strong>Strategic</strong> Information Systems, co-chairing the Green IT track at ICIS2009, organizing of a panel at ECIS 2010, and serving on the editorial board (AssociateEditor) on an upcoming Sustainable IS special issue of MIS Quarterly. Nurturing establishedcollaboration with the Viktoria Institute and other central players in Sweden, such as theSwedish Transport Agency, will be of great importance to this endeavour.Incorporating this journey into the established research streams in the department will becritical for future success, and is an important part of ongoing strategic planning. In terms ofsystems development research, the department’s already substantial achievements will bedirected towards the integration of compositional-relational programming with agile methodsand action-oriented conceptual modelling to support better the need of contemporarydevelopment activities. A new PhD student was recently hired to work in this area and aproject proposal has been produced, but is yet to be submitted (an earlier version was sent toVR in 2010 but failed in the competition). Furthermore, the increased mediatization ofWestern economy has dramatically changed not only the relationship between organizationsand their stakeholders but also the role of organizations in the contemporary society. Hence,the interplay between the evolution of the information society and management oforganizations is an area where the department sees great potential for further research thatintegrates the three research streams and leverages related research activity in the department.Current activities in this area include co-editing a special issue of MIS Quarterly onInformation Systems for Symbolic Action: Social Media and Beyond and the co-chairing of atrack on Managing the Interactive Organization at the 2011 Nordic Academy of Managementconference.One critical success factor is the attraction of further external funding. The department’sstrategy here is to liaise with strategically important partners, academic and industrial, and toleverage internal funding by co-funding external projects. Our goal is that every internal SEKspent on research should attract at least one SEK in external funding. In keeping with thisstrategy, there are currently a number of proposals under evaluation at different fundingagencies. To attract further funding for the research on digital services and surveillance thedepartment is a partner on four new proposals submitted to EU FP7 on (1) Impacts ofIntelligent Aerial Surveillance Systems, (2) Rules, Expectations and Security throughPrivacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies, (3) Modelling of the Interplay between Securityand Privacy, and (4) Public Perceptions of Security and Privacy. At the national level, aproposal piggybacking on the U-Care project has been sent to FAS. This proposed project,aims to describe and understand the challenges involved in achieving successful onlinepsychosocial care and pays special attention to how the psychological profession is changingand the role of open standards and practices in relation to successful online psychosocial care.A parallel proposal with a slightly different emphasis has been sent to RiksbankensJubileumsfond (RJ). To further the research on open practices, an extension of theManagement and Organization of Open Practices projects has also been proposed to RJ. In thearea of social media and information society studies, proposals have been submitted toHandelsbankens Stiftelser, RJ, Internetfonden .SE, FAS and VR.2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>It should be clear that the department considers its future success as highly dependent on itsability to create, maintain and influence partner networks, both within and beyond theuniversity. One particularly important national network that will be carefully nurtured is thatof the above-mentioned MIT research school. This research school serves a very importantpurpose in the department’s doctoral education by opening up a national arena for Ph.D.student interaction. It also serves the important purpose of furthering collaboration with seniorcolleagues and inspiring the development of new research directions. A current example is theManagement and Organization of Open Practices project, which is a direct result of thedepartment’s collaboration with IT University of Gothenburg through the research school.Another critical factor for success is continued involvement with the public discourse. Thedepartment has been seen frequently in public media, such as national television andnewspapers. Such activities serve the purpose of making the department’s research known tothe general public, and also facilitates connections within the empirical field and thusincreases the quality of research.A4. List of publications representing the research activity at the departmentÅgerfalk P J and Fitzgerald B (2008) Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: ExploringOpensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy, MIS Quarterly, 32(2): 385–409.[http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol32/iss2/11/]Eriksson O and Ågerfalk P J (2010) Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in InformationInfrastructures, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 11(8): 433–454.[http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss8/1/]Fuchs, Christian (2011) Internet and Society. Social Theory in the Information Age. NewYork: Routledge (Paperback).Holmström Olsson H, Ó Conchúir E, Ågerfalk P J and Fitzgerald B (2008) Two-StageOffshoring: An Investigation of the Irish Bridge, MIS Quarterly, 32(2), pp. 257–279.[http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol32/iss2/6/]Robles E and Wiberg M (2011) From materials to materiality, ACM Interactions, Jan+FebIssue, 18(1): 32–37.[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1897248]Wiberg M and Robles E (2010). Computational compositions: Aesthetics, materials, andinteraction design. International Journal of Design, 4(2): 65–76.[http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/757]2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A5. List of publications representing renewal of research activity at the department.Christensen M, Christensen C and Jansson A (eds. in press) Online territories: globalization,mediated practice and social space. New York: Peter Lang.Fuchs C (2011) New media, web 2.0 and surveillance. Sociology Compass 5 (2): 134–147.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00354.x/abstract]Larsson A O (in press) Interactive to me – Interactive to you? A study of use and appreciationof interactivity on Swedish newspaper web sites. To appear in New Media & Society.A6. List of publications not included in the DiVA databaseFuchs C (2009) Information and communication technologies & society. European Journal ofCommunication 24 (1): 69-87.[http://ejc.sagepub.com/content/24/1/69.abstract]Christensen C (2008) Uploading dissonance: YouTube and the US occupation of Iraq. Media,War and Conflict 1(2): 155-175.[http://mwc.sagepub.com/content/1/2/155.abstract]Robles, E., & Wiberg, M. (2010) Texturing the “material turn” in interaction design. Inproceedings of TEI2011 – International Conference on Tangible and EmbeddedInteraction, ACM Press. p. 137–144.Wiberg, M. & Zaslavsky, A. (2010) Landscaping Future Interaction: Special Issue on Mobileand Ubiquitous Multimedia, Guest Editors Introduction, IEEE Multimedia.[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MMUL.2010.34]Stolterman, E. & Wiberg, M (2010) Concept-driven Interaction Design Research, HumanComputer Interaction, Vol 25, Issue 2, p. 95-118.[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a923091337~db=all]Edenius, M and Yakhlef, A. (2007) Space, vision and organisational learning: the interplay ofincorporating and inscribing practices. Management Learning, 38(1): 1–18.[http://mlq.sagepub.com/content/38/2/193.abstract]2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.As should be clear from the above, the department has undergone a complete renewalsince KoF07. These changes are very much a response to the results of the KoF07evaluation.A8. List of significant prizes and awardsEriksson Lundström, Jenny, 34, female, 2007, Student Award at MRABS – The FirstInternational Workshop on Metareasoning in AgentBased Systems in conjunction withAAMAS’07, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 14-18, 2007.Ågerfalk, Pär J., 36, male, Sjöström, Jonas, 33, male, 2007, Best paper award at the 2 ndIntl. Conference on the Pragmatic Web, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 22–23 Oct 2007.A9. Additional sources of informationwww.im.uu.se2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 2 2Invited talks at international conferences 3 3Assignment in research councils and foundationsAssignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturerpositions5 3Assignment as editor or member of editorial boards 21 6Member of international scientific councilsMember of academies and learned societies 11 4Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):Associate editor/member of organizing committee, conferencesOrganization of intl. conferences313Number ofindividualscontributing34B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 8Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University) 3Number of granted external funds for new projects 7Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 2Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration)Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 27Other activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientificexpeditions, field work etc.):Field work , Namibia, Uganda Lesotho 42011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorshipsPopular science papers/books 14Textbooks 2Spin-off commercial companiesGovernmental/societal assignments 4Other activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.):……………….Media appearance (TV, radio) 142011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted data (data distributed to thedepartments no later than Dec. 10 2010)Clarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (for general comments, see part C – separate <strong>document</strong>)2011-02-28 Dept of Informatics and Media v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong>“Quality and Renewal 2011” Research evaluation at Uppsala University<strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchUCRS Centre for Russian and Eurasian StudiesA1.i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) was launched on January 1, 2010,as part of the government’s strategic initiative in the research field “politically importantgeographic regions.” The centre was set up under the organizational umbrella of the Faculty ofSocial Sciences and the main activities of the centre is to conduct research related to Russiaand its neighboring countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. UCRS is designed to meetthe highest international standards of scientific excellence and spans across the humanitiesand the social sciences, as well as law and theology with researchers affiliated to the centrefrom different scholarly fields, such as linguists, literary scholars, theologians, economists,economic historians, mass communication specialists, geographers, political scientists, peaceand conflict researchers, lawyers, sociologists and anthropologists.The program is divided into three thematic research areas, namely: State and Market, IdentityFormation, and Russia's Neighboring Countries. The ambition of all three research areas is tocontribute, through the advanced study of formative processes, to a deeper understanding ofdevelopments in Russia and its neighboring countries, as well as to new theoreticaldevelopments within the disciplines represented in the research area.State and market focus on questions that relates to economic and legal reform, together withbusiness development, household coping strategies and the regional dimension. The specifictasks are to investigate how various agencies and officials have responded to thetransformation of the legal order, how the post-Soviet state has coped with the challenge ofsecuring contracts and property rights, how former state-owned enterprises have adjusted tothe market, how energy policy has become an important foreign policy issue, how householdshave evolved strategies to cope with fundamentally new realities, and how, in the Russiancase, the center has faced the regional dilemma that rests in sustaining organized society inremote regions that may have been economically viable only under a non-market orientedSoviet order.Identity formation approaches the social dimension in Russia, focusing on the role of vitalidentity markers such as ethnicity, language, religion and gender. More specifically, it focuseson the various processes that characterize Russia’s new political, social and cultural identity.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>What are the factors shaping Russia’s self-understanding? Which mechanisms are central toidentity formation? How do identities compete with one another in the political and culturalarenas? What is Europe’s role in the various identity-related processes at work in Russiatoday? These and other issues are addressed from a variety of scholarly perspectives,including anthropology, history of ideas, jurisprudence, linguistics, literary studies,philosophy, mass media, political science and religious studies. Several identity markers arestudied, such as ethnicity, gender, power relations, religion and language. Variousperspectives on Russian identity, including interpretations of the relations between centre andperiphery, as well as different ideological visions of the country’s role on the geopoliticalscene, are examined by Swedish and international researchers. Of particular interest is thecharacter of human rights discourse in Russia.The thematic area of Russia's neighboring countries focuses on the post-Soviet developmentsin the light of the processes of social, political and economic transformation that havecharacterized these countries. It investigates questions relating to differing governancepatterns in the post-Soviet region, the role of Russian diasporas, prospects for cooperation andconflict, including Russian energy policy, as well as Russian self-perceptions of Russia.Geographically this thematic area covers the Baltic States, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova,Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan andBelarus. The main issues studied relate to international and regional cooperation, the EU's andNATO's eastward enlargement, energy policy, terrorism and ethnic conflicts and types ofpolitical regime and democratization. Of equal interest are language issues, language policy,minority politics and diaspora affairs, and issues related to transnational minorities, historicalmemory, and ethnicity from a historical, cultural, political and social perspective.Analytically, this thematic area spans across multiple disciplines, such as the political science,peace and conflict research, international studies, cultural geography and demography,sociology, anthropology, history and linguistics.While themes are separate, as suggested above it is expected that over time, as more specificprojects are formulated, the multi-disciplinary research environment will be conducive toforms of cross fertilization both within and between the respective thematic areas that amountto even greater interdisciplinary endeavors.The improvement of quality of research will be focused on three interrelated tasks. The first isto nurture the potential of each individual researcher aiming at fruitful co-operations betweenresearchers both within and outside the centre. By achieving a critical mass of ongoingmeetings between scholars in residence, it will be possible to ensure that multi-disciplinaryapproaches generate novel perspectives and research questions. This includes an ambitiousseminar program and a systematic production and dissemination of ongoing research papers.Second is to continue the work on creating international networks, including formalizedagreements on research cooperation. Third - and as a basic priority- is to continue theambition of securing external funding.UCRS is designed to promote career opportunities for young researchers, within academia aswell as in surrounding society. By providing a dynamic research environment that featuresprominent presenters, national as well as international, at seminars, workshops andconferences, UCRS will attract interest from members of the general student population.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>By devising programs to support graduate students wishing to pursue thesis work on topicsrelevant to the area, it will indicate and prepare for possible career paths, and by reservingfunds for the recruitment of post-doctoral fellows, it will make sure that the best and thebrightest can pursue such careers. The general ambition of training area specialists will alsoentail exposure to an international research environment, and opportunities to make contactsand be integrated into international networks that are of value irrespective of career choice.A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.Much of the research is still in its early phase, having started in January 2010, and it is thereforenot yet possible to fully evaluate any particular successful areas of research activities. The mostimportant result has been the establishment and development of a functioning organization.Currently, there are about twenty-five persons from different scholarly fields associated to thecentre and an administration has been built up to maximize the potential for the researchplatform. The successful launching of this new University unit has already produced significantand visible results. The Centre has begun to develop an international reputation for the strengthof its thematic research areas and has been internationally established through participation ofleading scholars from abroad, as well as through presentation of the Centre’s research projectsat international conferences and workshops. The strong multi-disciplinary nature of theresearch, together with the strong content of international exchange, brought about by a livelyprogram of visiting scholars in residence and an ambitious seminar program have created anopen and innovative research milieu where a variety of new theoretical and methodologicalapproaches can be developed at the frontlines of science to understand the meaning andimplications of contemporary political, economical, societal and cultural developments in thearea. UCRS has also started to develop a database on electoral systems and political parties inthe region, covering both statistic and qualitative material. Such a database, fully developed,will be a valuable contribution to the comparative research at the centre.UCRS is designed to serve not only as an international center of scientific excellence but also asa national resource center. The centre has an outspoken ambition to actively participate in theEuropean and international research communities and to seek partners for cooperation andexchange. To facilitate this, UCRS has an advisory board consisting of six researchers of fullprofessional rank from universities in Russia, Finland, USA, Germany and Latvia. The advisoryboard’s main purpose is to strengthen the wide range of linkages that exist, and should exist,between the UCRS and the academic community internationally and in the countries the centreare studying.Examples of research milieus suitable for benchmarking in Scandinavia are: AleksanteriInstitute, Helsinki University in Finland, Helsinki School of Economics, Société Finno-Ougrienne, Helsinki, and Aarhus University in Denmark and Oslo University in Norway, thedepartment of Central and Eastern European Studies at Lund University. In the rest of Europe,Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford, the Centre for Russian and EastEuropean Studies at the University of Birmingham, School of Slavonic and East European2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>Studies at the University College London, the Department of Central and East European Studiesat the University of Glasgow, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa at the University of Bremen.Internationally, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, theInstitute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University, theCentre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs,University of Toronto, the Moscow Academy of Sciences and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in aperspective of 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successfulpursuit of these research directions would be attained, and what indicators would berelevant, e.g. in terms of proportion between different categories of researchers andother personnel.The establishment of UCRS is a strategic initiative on the behalf of the Swedish Governmentand Uppsala University to strengthen multi-disciplinary research on Russia and in the post-Soviet space. Funds are allocated to this strategic initiative for five years, after which thecentre will be evaluated. If UCRS is considered to have succeeded in its aim to create a viableand internationally distinguished research milieu, the centre will be made a permanentresearch unit. Uppsala University has an explicit ambition to promote research cooperationacross disciplinary borders, and an equally outspoken ambition that UCRS should become oneof its most important profiles. The strategy to achieve this is to continue to build up a clearlyfocused research environment that brings a broad span of expertise together, across faculties,with a robust supporting infrastructure. Fully developed, it will be a significant multidisciplinarynode in international networks linking together research institutes in the Eurasianregion with leading Centre for research on Russia and the post-Soviet space elsewhere in theworld.The research platform that has now been created is the only of its kind in Sweden, with anexceptional scientific depth and geographical width. The organizational structure of theresearch into three thematic research areas, with appointed research directors, has proven tobe successful. These thematic areas should not be viewed as separate undertakings. It is, onthe contrary, an outspoken ambition of both the UCRS board and the management team thatwhilst these areas is mainly focused on respective specializations, all participants shall take anactive interest in work that is ongoing in the neighboring thematic areas. The whole ambitionof ensuring that a multi-disciplinary research environment shall result in novel multidisciplinaryapproaches rests on this common understanding. These thematic areas willcontinue to be developed and the permanent staff will be steadily reinforced with researchersassociated to the centre for varying periods of time – from both other departments at UppsalaUniversity as well as other institutions of higher learning, in Sweden and abroad. A particularpriority will be given to post-docs. As the thematic research areas develop, tenured positionswill be made available. These can either be full-time positions or a shared commitmentbetween the centre and another department at Uppsala University.Fully staffed, it will offer a research environment that involves close to 30 scholars with postdoc,tenured or long term positions. UCRS will also give priority to host, on a regular basis,visiting scholars from other universities, in Sweden or abroad, spending periods from a few2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>weeks up to several months at the center. PhD students will be formally admitted to PhDprograms within their respective disciplines, but can spend longer or shorter periods at thecenter.In sum, the ambition, over the coming years, is to continue what started in 2010 and to buildand develop an infrastructure that is sufficiently robust and flexible to meet several types ofdemand. Entailed here is the maintenance of library collections, journal and newspapersubscriptions, a weekly updated web site, all of which at the disposal of researchers andstudents as well as representatives of the business world, of public administration, and of themedia.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.Selected publications representing the research profile at UCRSNOTE FROM THE <strong>KoF11</strong> EVALUATION OFFICE: ONLY A FEW PUBLICATIONSWERE SUPPOSED TO BE LISTED – WE WILL UPDATE THIS SECTION WHENTHE CENTRE HAVE SELECTED A FEW OF THESE…Asztalos Morell, Ildiko. Gender Regimes, Citizen <strong>Part</strong>icipaton and Rural Restructuring.Elsevier, 2008Bennich-Björkman, Li. Civic Commitment, Political Culture and the Estonian InterwarGeneration. Nationalities Papers. Vol. March 2007Bennich-Björkman, Li. Political Culture Under Institutional Pressure. How InstitutionsTransform Early Socialization. New York; Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007Bennich-Björkman, Li. The Cultural Roots of Estonia's Successful Transition: How HistoricalLegacies Shaped the 1990s ". East European Politics and Societies, 2007Borg, Dominika, Trafficking in Women: The Case of Poland. East European Analytical CaseReporter, no 2, 2005Eliaeson, Sven. Building Civil Society and Democracy in New Europe. Cambridge ScholarsPublishing, Newcastle, 2008Eliaeson, Sven. Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe: Essays in honour ofEdmund Mokrzycki. Routledge, 2006Engvall, Johan. Kyrgyzstan: Anatomy of a State. Problems of Post-Communism, Vol 54, no 4,2007Fogelklou, Anders. Interpretation and Accomodation in the Russian Constitutional Court. InRussia, Europe, and the Rule of Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers Leiden Boston, 2007Giandomenico, Jessica. Path Dependency in EU Enlargement: Macedonia's Candidate Statusfrom a Historical Institutional Perspective. Kluwer Law International, London, 2009Hansen, Julie. “Pamet’ a vyprávení v románech Mirákl a Príbeh inženýra lidskýchduší”. I: Sborník z mezinárodní conference o živote a díle Josefa Škvoreckého, Praha,Literarni akademie, 2005Hedlund, Stefan and Rosefield Steven. Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization.Cambridge University Press, 20082011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>Hedlund, Stefan. Institutionell teori: ekonomiska aktörer, spelregler och samhällsnormer.Studentlitteratur, 2007Hedlund, Stefan. Russian Path Dependence. Routledge, 2005Karlsohn, Irina. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezjskaja legenda v russkoj kul’ture. 1843-1940.University of Gothenburg, 2009Levinsson, Claes. The Long Shadow of History: Post-Soviet Border Disputes—The Case ofEstonia, Latvia, and Russia. Connections. The Quarterly Journal, Vol. V, no 2, Fall 2006Namli, Elena. Kamp med förnuftet. Rysk kritik av västerländsk rationalism. Artos, Skellefteå,2009Namli, Elena. Så att vi kan skicka alla logaritmerna åt helvete. Rysk identitet frånDostojevskij till patriarken Kirill. Subaltern, no 1, 2010Namli, Elena. Struggling With Reason. Dostoevsky as Moral Theologian. Studia Theologicavol 63 no 2, 2009Rabow-Edling, Susanna. Letters from the Governor's wife. A view from Russian Alaska1859-1862. Historisk Tidskrift, 2007Rabow-Edling, Susanna. Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism. StateUniversity of New York Press, 2006Sätre, Ann-Mari. Vild kapitalism och gammal byråkrati: om småföretagare i Ryssland.Nøhaven Danmark, Premiss förlag, 2007Sätre, Ann-Mari. Women and women’s work in transitional Russia: impacts from the Sovietsystem. In Gender transitions in Russia and Eastern Europe. Gondolin, Gdansk Poland, 2005Simons, Greg. The Russian Orthodox Church and its Role in Cultural Production, Stockholm,Almqvist & Wiksell International, March 2005Svanberg Ingvar and David Westerlund. Islam Outside The Arab World. Taylor & FrancisLtd, London, 1999Svanberg, Ingvar. Kazak refugees in Turkey: a study of cultural persistence and socialchange. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, 1989Vladimirova, Vladislava. Just Labor: Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer HerdingCommunity. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, 20062011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.Selected publications produced at the UCRS during 2010. Since the unit has existed onlyfor a year, all publications can be considered as a renewal of research activity.NOTE FROM THE <strong>KoF11</strong> EVALUATION OFFICE: ONLY A FEW PUBLICATIONSWERE SUPPOSED TO BE LISTED – WE WILL UPDATE THIS SECTION WHENTHE CENTRE HAVE SELECTED A FEW OF THESE…Ann-Mari Sätre , “Women’s Work in Transitional Russia: Women’s Strategies forEntrepreneurship and Survival in Russian Regions” in Kangaspuro, M, Nikula, J & Stodolsky,I (eds) Perestroika: Process and Consequences, Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society 2010Hansen, Julie. Memory Unleashed by Perestroika : Olga Grushin's "The Dream Life ofSukhanov". Die Welt der Slaven, 2011. (forthcoming)Hansen, Julie "Memory unleashed by perestroika: Olga Grushin´s ´The dream life ofSukhanov´" Die Welt der Slaven, LVI, 2011 (forthcoming)Hedlund, Stefan "Russia in Crisis: The End of an Energy Superpower," Russian Studies, No.2, April 2010.Hedlund, Stefan "Russia after the Financial Crisis," Russian Studies, No. 6, December 2010.Karlsohn, Irina, Anmärkningar om Dostojevskijs novell ’Ett svagt hjärta’, PsykoanalytiskTid/Skrift. Nr. 30-31, 2010.Simons, Greg, Fourth Generation Warfare and the Clash of Civilisations, Oxford, Journal ofIslamic Studies, Volume 21, No. 2, 2010.Ryabchuk, Mykola. “Postsowiecka schizophrenia” czy “schizofreniczna postsowieckość”?Zjawisko ambiwalencji społecznej na Ukrainie i Białorusi” [“Post-Soviet schizophrenia” or“schizophrenic post-Sovitism”? Social ambivalence in Ukraine and Belarus, in Polish], StudiaBialorutenistyczne, vol.4, no.1, 2010, s.73-90.Ryabchuk, Mykola. “Постсовєтська шизофренія” чи “шизофренічна постсовєтськість”?Явище суспільнoї амбівалентности в Україні та Білорусі” [“Post-Soviet schizophrenia” or“schizophrenic post-Sovitism”? Social ambivalence in Ukraine and Belarus, in Ukrainian],Україна модерна, vol.5, no.4, 2010, с.186-205.Ryabchuk, Mykola. Review of Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk, eds., Europe’s LastFrontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Between Russia and the European Union. –Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. 51, no. 4, 2009, p. 589-592.Ryabchuk, Mykola. The Ukrainian ‘Friday’ and the Russian ‘Robinson’: The Uneasy Adventof Postcoloniality”, Canadian American Slavic Studies, vol.44, nos.1-2, 2010, pp.5-20.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>Ryabchuk, Mykola. Ukraine’s Nuclear Nostalgia, World Policy, vol.26, no.4 (Winter2009/10), pp.91-101.Ryabchuk, Mykola. Реконструкція реґіону [Reconstruction of the Region, review article, inUkrainian], Критика [Krytyka], vol.14, nos.7-8, 2010, с.9-14.Simons, Greg. Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the Russian War onTerrorism, Farnham, Ashgate, 2010A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Since UCRS is a new unit at the university, the procedures and routines of reporting to theDIVA database has not yet been fully developed. Since UCRS is a unit that spans overfive faculties, and a number of the researchers have shared commitments between thecentre and other departments at the University, their publications are not listed at UCRSbut on the department where their employment is administratively located. Moreover,UCRS is currently in a process of building up the research program and recruitingresearchers. It is therefore not possible, at this time, to give an accurate picture of theresearch based on publications registered in the DIVA database. The separate bibliometricanalysis will therefore be misleading and does not take these circumstances intoconsideration. An updated list of publications will be distributed at the panels visit in May.A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.Not applicable. UCRS is a new unit and does not yet have the luxury to base its evaluationon previous experiences.A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsNot applicable.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>A9. Additional sources of informationWebsite: www.ucrs.uu.seOrganisation:UCRS is set up as a multi-disciplinary research center according to the Uppsala Universitymodel for the organization of Research Centre, (Dnr UFV 2007/804). According to thechosen organizational model, the leadership and management of the centre is theresponsibility of a Governing board, an administrative director and three researchdirectors. The Faculty Board of Social Sciences appoints the Governing board and theVice-Chancellor the Director (“Föreståndare”). The former has the responsibility forvision and strategy, while the latter leads the administrative management of the centre(economy, personnel and coordination of daily activities). The director is also the board’sprincipal rapporteur. The Governing Board appoints the research directors. Their chiefresponsibility is to develop and sustain research of highest international standards, and toensure and maintain a creative environment for the researchers at the centre as well as forinvited scholars staying at the centre for shorter or longer periods. The research directorsand the administrative director represent the management team.The UCRS board consists of a chairman and six members appointed by the Faculty ofSocial Sciences. One member is an external member from another university, twomembers is from the Faculty of Social Sciences; one member is from the Faculty ofHumanities and one member from the Faculty of Languages. One member is appointed bythe Uppsala Student Union.The administrative staff is made up by an economic administrator, a personnel officer, amedia officer and a program officer.2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesClarification: In the tables total numbers for the department should be presented (not detailed lists). During thevisits the experts might ask for more detailed explanations regarding the numbers presented.B1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferencesInvited talks at international conferencesAssignment in research councils and foundationsAssignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturerpositionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boardsMember of international scientific councilsMember of academies and learned societies 2 1Other, specify (e.g. hosting of major conferences, etc.):………………………………Hosting of major conferencesWeekly scientific seminars223Number ofindividualscontributing3348B2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university)UCRS hasan ongoingrecruitmentInternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University)UCRS hasan ongoingrecruitmentNumber of granted external funds for new projects 2Other, specify:………………………………B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 2Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 2Number of collaborating institutions with joint publicationsOther activity according to traditions of the research field (specify; scientificexpeditions, field work etc.):……………….2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)Adjunct professorshipsPopular science papers/booksTextbooksSpin-off commercial companiesGovernmental/societal assignmentsOther activities according to traditions of the research field (specify; patents,popular science presentations etc.):……………….Totalnumber2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted dataClarification: Since the data regarding personnel, exams and economy is submitted according to university-wide(or national) standards and regulations the actual figures are fixed. However, due to the selection of data, youmight want to comment upon circumstances with regard to traditions, profiles etc. in your specific research field,or if you have research staff with external funding (thus not present in the internal databases) etc.Remember that the assessment does not compare different departments within Uppsala University. It shouldrather reflect the quality and renewal of each department compared to that of other universities and departments(involved in the same research field).No specific comments (see general comments in part C, separate file)2011-02-28 Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies v 1.0

Uppsala University 1<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> A: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>aspects</strong> on researchInstitute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF)A1. i) Give a summary of the current research activities. State primary missions andgoals as well defined as possible.The Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) was set up in 1994 as a nationalmultidisciplinary social science resource centre. Since then, IBF has played a leading role inraising Swedish housing and urban research to a high international standard, and it has builtextensive international and national research networks. The organizational structure is basedon the social science disciplines and on the idea that multidisciplinary research should besolidly rooted in disciplinary competence. However, many research topics and projects at IBFrun across pre-defined disciplinary borders. This interdisciplinary cooperation is supportedand enriched by an extensive seminar operation. The main research profiles are ethnicrelations, housing economics and policies, urban life and city planning, and sustainability.Projects address both basic and applied concerns, with funding from research councils and avariety of actors in the housing and urban sector.The economists at IBF conduct research within the areas of real estate, housing and urbaneconomics, broadly defined. Specific questions that they study within real estate and housingeconomics are related to, for example, rental and property market dynamics, propertyvaluation, assessment, taxation and investment performance, residential rent control,willingness-to-pay for non-marketed amenities (hedonic price estimations), effects of theSwedish housing allowance system on crowded housing, and effects of housing policies onhousehold formation and young people’s housing careers. Within urban economics, examplesof research topics studied are tipping points and the dynamics of segregation, the effects ofethnic heterogeneity on natives’ preferences for redistribution and on the growth of antiimmigrantparties, the wage gap between immigrants and natives, and the importance ofpoliticians’ characteristics for political decision-making.The IBF geography group has mainly specialised in residential segregation and migrationstudies and has a strong focus on ethnic relations. The group has a leading position within theNordic countries on issues related to ethnic residential segregation, and it has also developed awidespread international network and close relations to governmental and non-governmentalorganisations. Current research focuses on the dynamics of residential and school segregation,the effects of segregation (especially neighbourhood effects), and related policy interventionssuch as area-based policies and social mix policies. Important contributions from the groupalso include studies on tenure segmentation, discrimination and gender/intersectionality.The political science group conducts research on welfare state policies with a focus onhousing politics and policy, urban governance, civil society and social citizenship. Projectstake on issues of political integration, democratic participation, social capital, welfare statereforms, public policy, implementation and evaluation, and collective action in housing. Themain focus is on Swedish politics and policies, but with a strong comparative emphasis.Theoretical perspectives adopted are institutionalism, constructivism and contextualisedrational action, as well as theories about democracy, participation, corporatism and pathdependence. Although internationally leading in the academic field of housing politics, thegroup is small in size. This makes interaction with other research environments absolutely2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 2<strong>KoF11</strong>crucial. The group takes particular pride in its mutually productive co-operation with thepolitical science colleagues in Uppsala, in research projects, joint seminars and supervising.Sociological research at the institute addresses a number of different topics. There is a strongresearch tradition in urban sustainability, ecological modernization and the politics of placeand space. In the latter area, a recent collaborative project including sociologists and apolitical scientist is providing novel insights into urban governance and the remaking ofpublic space. Younger scholars and PhD students in sociology are doing research abouthousing and new family forms distinct from the conventional nuclear family, urban nature andthe role of animals in urban settings, and migration, travel and the organizational managementof mobility. This agenda may seem to be diverse, but a number of common themes runthrough much of the research, particularly themes concerning class, gender, age and ethnicity.In addition to research within IBF’s four core disciplines, important research contributionsalso come from our anthropologist, who focuses on political integration, participation andgovernance, and on crucial <strong>aspects</strong> of work/family relations, contextualized in today’s urbansettings; our economic historian, who is specialized in the enlightenment epoch and analysesthe early history of social planning and urban development and the discourse of progress; andour environmental psychologist, who studies health effects of outdoor urban green spaces andpsychosocial processes mediating between housing and health.A1. ii) List actions that would improve the quality of the department’s research, andobstacles that hinder improvement.In order to maintain and develop high quality research, successful recruitment and the abilityto keep key members of staff are high priority issues. We also recognize the need to provideour researchers with the best available datasets, organize seminars and specialized workshops,and not least support our PhD student’s participation in international conferences as fruitfulways of strengthening our capacity to carry out high quality research. Funding limitations canthreaten all such activities, but larger externally funded projects and long-term researchprogrammes, headed by senior researchers with permanent positions at the institute, areimportant in reducing such threats. The recently launched “Dilemmas of Diversity”programme, described in section A2, is a promising example of how to sustain key activities.A1. iii) Describe interdisciplinary activities and networks, giving information on jointpublications and funding, and provide statements on the suitability of the presentorganizational placement within Uppsala University.The KoF07 evaluation concluded that IBF’s research deserved the mark “high internationalstandard”. The evaluators pointed out the close cooperation between staff belonging todifferent disciplines as an important characteristic. Since then we have placed even moreemphasis on inter-disciplinary activities: we have intensified our joint seminar activities,using formats specifically designed to advance interdisciplinary exchange; launched aninternational award in housing and urban studies; and succeeded in bringing home a 6-yearprogramme research grant, based on an application drawing upon most of the in-houseresearch expertise. More externally funded research projects than ever in IBF’s history nowcut across disciplinary boundaries. We also pursue intense research co-operation (within andbetween disciplines) with other departments in Uppsala and at research institutions around theworld. The organizational placement of IBF as a department in the faculty of social sciencesprovides good opportunities for this.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>A2. i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.The study of ethnic integration and segregation represents a strong and multidisciplinary fieldof research at IBF. All disciplines at IBF are involved through research and seminar activities.Geographers are effectively exploiting the unique databases available at the Institute (cf.section A3) in investigating the dynamics and effects of ethnic residential segregation, andthey have made important contributions to the international literature in this field. Politicalscientists with an interest in citizenship, political integration, ethnic organization and urbangovernance, in cooperation with the cultural anthropologist at IBF, are exploring thechallenges that immigration and ethnic diversity pose to both national and local governments,and to civil society. Economists at IBF have started examining residential segregation andhow local public opinion is affected by the arrival of immigrants, and sociologists arecontributing with research about migration, ethnicity and urban places.In 2009, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research selected IBF as one oftwo Swedish institutions to be awarded six years of programme funding in the field ofinternational migration and ethnic relations (IMER). This programme, entitled “Dilemmas ofdiversity: Ethnic integration and segregation in the city” and headed by professor RogerAndersson, was launched in 2010 (www.ibf.uu.se/diversity). The research group associatedwith the programme currently consists of 28 persons – a core of 18 researchers employed atIBF complemented by 10 highly qualified researchers at other research institutions in Uppsalaand elsewhere in Sweden, mainly people with previous connections to IBF or who work injoint research projects with scholars at IBF. The group includes seven PhD students.The programme funding (12 MSEK) is mainly being used for PhD students and postdoctoralgrants but, equally important, the programme provides a framework for a number of ongoingprojects with funding from other national and international sources. Examples include acomprehensive Norface-funded project on welfare states and ethnic segregation; projects onethnic housing segmentation and “social mix” policies; on ethnic organization, politicalintegration and urban democracy; on planning, segregation and urban violence; and onpolicies for the settlement and housing of refugees. The programme also involves a seminarseries, an annual programme workshop and a scheme for both individual and collectiveparticipation in international conferences. These measures encourage exchange andcooperation within the group as well as external networking, and they promote researchoutput of high international quality.Another field of research where IBF scholars have been consistently performing at theresearch frontier is housing policy and politics. Though policy-oriented studies are carried outat various departments within the housing studies community, the political scientists at IBFhave an internationally unique focus on the interaction between political actors andinstitutions of housing. They have carried out a number of projects on housing politicsworking from general theoretical perspectives on the welfare state, including governance, pathdependence and retrenchment. In the last few decades the institutional rules of the gamesbetween actors in housing markets and politics have gradually changed in most countries, anda number of market regulations and subsidies have been abolished. However, unlike otherwelfare goods, housing has always been distributed via markets. This makes housingprovision an interesting and fruitful case for studying current politological issues likegovernance, retrenchment and new public management, as well as for comparison with otherwelfare state sectors. The games and institutions of housing provision on different levels also2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>provide an interesting meeting place for IBF economists and political scientists, which will beexplored more systematically in the next few years.In addition we want to point out that several individual scholars at the institute areinternationally recognized experts in their fields. For example, environmental psychologistTerry Hartig’s research on psychologically restorative properties of natural and urbanenvironments complements the more extensive and better known research on environmentalstress and health. He has published some of the most influential papers in this field. Economichistorian Göran Rydén co-authored, in 2007, an internationally celebrated monograph onBaltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century, combining economic history, urbandevelopment and an international comparative approach. Likewise, emeritus professor insociology Jim Kemeny has made pioneering work on the theorization of housing from asociological perspective and emeritus professor in political science Evert Vedung is aninternational authority in the field of evaluation research.A2. ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to theseIn terms of housing and urban research, IBF’s concentration of social science research isunique in Sweden and Scandinavia. Both NOVA and NIBR in Norway and SBI in Denmarkcarry out interesting research and sometimes on similar topics. They are however much moredependent on external funding and commissioned work initiated by ministries and Stateboards, and their profiles and institutional roles differ much from our.Comparisons can be made with a number of urban and/or housing institutes outside ofScandinavia, particularly our “sister units” in Delft, York and Glasgow, described below. AsIBF is set up as a disciplinary-based unit for housing and urban research, these “sister units”give us important cues on how to further our multidisciplinary research ambitions.OTB Research Institute for Urban, Housing and Mobility Studies, Delft. OTB’s mainobjective is to conduct strategic research in housing studies, urban studies, mobility studiesand geo-information studies. This type of research, which can be described as “use-inspiredbasic research”, occupies a position between basic and applied research. The institute is madeup of seven research departments and a research support department and is much bigger thanIBF (125 employees).The Centre for Housing Policy (CHP) at the University of York. The Centre is part of theDepartment of Social Policy and Social Work. Its staff cover issues such as homelessness;housing, health and support; housing finance; neighbourhoods; and housing and welfaresystems. The unit is much smaller than IBF, especially in terms of tenure positions.Department of Urban Studies, Glasgow. This is one of the largest centers for urban research inthe UK with more than 30 academic and research staff and over 20 doctoral students. Theyconduct interdisciplinary analyses of cities, markets and regions and the experiences of urbanresidents and neighbourhoods. Contrary to IBF, they also offer a range of undergraduate,master and doctoral degree programmes which attract students from across the UK, Europeand worldwide.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>A3. Describe the most promising research directions for the department in a perspectiveof 5-10 years. Give an account for how the accomplishment of successful pursuit of theseresearch directions would be attained, and what indicators would be relevant, e.g. interms of proportion between different categories of researchers and other personnel.Segregation, neighbourhood effects and other register-based research: IBF is among theleading European research centres in the field of segregation and neighbourhood effects. Thishas been accomplished through long-term efforts to develop international cooperation withleading scholars – such as George Galster (US), Sako Musterd (NL), and Maarten van Ham(UK) – and by investing in an internationally unique comprehensive, individual, longitudinaldatabase (GeoSweden). In total, two PhD dissertations in Human Geography, and oneforthcoming thesis, along with more than ten articles in high standard referee journals havecontributed to making neighbourhood effects studies an important IBF profile. Besidesaddressing important theoretical and methodological issues in this research field, our studieshave clear policy implications (social mix policy, urban area-based interventions).<strong>Strategic</strong> investments in databases have been crucial for the development of this research. TheGeoSweden database now comprises all individuals who lived in Sweden sometime between1990 and 2008, with annual information on their housing and workplace characteristics aswell as their demographic, income, educational and neighbourhood attributes. All data aregeocoded (neighbourhood, municipality, county etc.). Moreover, IBF researchers have accessto detailed data on all real property sold in Sweden, including all single-family housingproperties. Another highly interesting, and in an international comparison quite rich andunique, data source that we so far only have been able to use in a limited number of papers isthe Swedish Property Index on rent, return and appraisals of commercial real property.The availability of these data sets provides the basis for many promising research projects atIBF in the future. Not only do they allow for the possibility to study new research questionsthat require access to detailed micro-level data, but they also create excellent opportunities forjoint research projects that bridge the different disciplines at IBF.Urban regimes and urban governance: IBF political scientists, together with IBF’santhropologist and sociologists, have for some time been conducting fruitful and originaltheory-driven empirical studies in the field of urban regimes and urban governance. Sinceurban problems and policies invariably reach across administrative borders, urban governancerepresents a distinct challenge to both politics and research. Accordingly, empirical studies ofurban issues can also contribute to the development of more general theories on governance.Modern urban governance demands broad mobilization and coordination of resources andcompetence. This makes the city increasingly important as an arena, in which institutionalexperiments are part of everyday political life, and also as an actor, in national, regional andeven global politics. Though there is a long history of studying power and democracy in thecity, we need to reappraise traditional theories in order to understand and evaluate urbangovernance under these new conditions. This puts political science to the test and also callsfor multi-disciplinary efforts.At IBF a number of ongoing, multi-disciplinary and comparative research projects approachdifferent <strong>aspects</strong> of the current tendencies in urban governance: the “hybrid character” ofdemocratic accountability in contemporary governance and planning arrangements; the dualprocesses of mobilizing “power to” and the exclusion of certain ideas and interests in relation2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>to the regimes regulating the right to the public space; the democratic role of “localparticipative elites” in neighbourhood politics; consequences for the integrative potential ofethnic associations participating within collaborative-intensive governance structures;jurisdictional tensions related to cities pursuing their own international policies and politics(including a promising PhD-project that conceptualizes “glocal governance” – wheremetropolitan cities pursue their own policies in areas normally within the scope ofinternational politics). All of these problems will be of crucial political importance for thecoming decades, and we foresee important input from IBF researchers and their networks.One current theme which is being analysed empirically and theoretically by IBF researchersconcerns urban democracy and collaborative planning. Recent attempts to involve the publicin organized dialogue have been inspired by theories of deliberative democracy. However,such institutional arrangements sometimes tend to obscure who is accountable and to promote“local participatory elites”. In order to better understand such functional governancenetworks, IBF political scientists and its anthropologist initiated and now coordinate acomparative project in collaboration with colleagues from France, the Netherlands and Spain.Urban life and urban place: Researchers in several disciplines at IBF address issues of urbanlife and relations between people in cities, in addition to those bound up with questions ofintegration and segregation. Place is a vital sociological subject at IBF. On the level of theperson, studies have focused on the relationship between place attachment and forms ofmobility, the relationship between localism and cosmopolitanism, the gendered character ofmobility, and also human-animal relations within the city. The politics of place has beenstudied in different settings, nationally and internationally, and sometimes comparatively,from the CBD to renewal projects and gentrification areas, and with a particular focus on thecultural dimensions of the concept. Urban place is also a salient feature in economic historicalstudies of 18 th century Swedish descriptions of London. Another promising development liesin the study of how public space is being redesigned through governance (cf. above). Inexplaining this as a single process of resistance and governance, it seems possible, andfruitful, to combine constructivism and rationalism, sociology and political science.Sustainable urbanicity: IBF has an emerging multi-disciplinary capability in the area of urbansustainability. Innovative sociological research has considered problems of risk and thegendered nature of risk management, especially in cases of the sick building syndrome, and ithas contributed to the sociological understanding of sustainable development and ecologicalmodernization, for example through on-going studies of late-modern housing forms andmovements. Internationally, psychological research at IBF has received increasing attention,as knowledge of physical and mental health benefits of access to urban green spaces isincreasingly recognized as a source of guidance for urban design that will promote publichealth and sustainability. The psychologist at IBF recently completed work on a co-editedbook that reports the outcomes of a large networking project funded by the European ScienceFoundation. The network included researchers and practitioners from more than 20 countries,and its activity led to the first call through the EU-framework funding programme for projectson positive health effects of natural environments.For all of these research directions, a balance between senior researchers, post-docs and PhDstudents is crucial for keeping and advancing our position. We think we now have a goodstructure, but because postdocs often have to rely upon external funding, we need to continueour efforts to bring in external funding to ensure this balance.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 7<strong>KoF11</strong>A4. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingthe research activity at the department.• Galster, George, Roger Andersson, Sako Musterd & Timo M. Kauppinen (2008)Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence fromSweden. Journal of Urban Economics 63(3): 858–870.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2007.07.002This article is an example of a fruitful long-term international cooperation, using IBF’sGeoSweden database for advancing knowledge in a rapidly expanding research field(neighbourhood effects). The cooperation with Musterd and Galster has generated around tenarticles in leading international journals since 2005.• Bengtsson, Bo, Per Strömblad & Ann-Helén Bay (eds.) (2010) Diversity, Inclusionand Citizenship in Scandinavia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge ScholarsPublishing.An edited volume with 13 chapters, in which 19 authors from Sweden, Denmark and Norwayexamine immigrant integration in the Scandinavian countries from different political scienceperspectives. The book presents important theoretical contributions and new, partlyunexpected, empirical findings. It is one of several examples of IBF’s role in initiatingcollaborative and comparative research in the Nordic countries. Moreover, five participants inIBF’s research programme “Dilemmas of diversity” (described in section A2) contributedwith chapters.• Dahlberg Matz and Karin Edmark (2008) Is there a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ in the settingof welfare benefit levels? Evidence from a policy intervention. Journal of PublicEconomics 92(5-6): 1193–1209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.12.001This paper, co-authored by IBF’s newly recruited professor in economics, investigateswhether local governments react to the welfare benefit levels in neighboring jurisdictionswhen setting their own benefit levels. The authors solve the simultaneity problem arising fromthe welfare game by utilizing a policy intervention. More specifically, they use a centrallygeared exogenous placement of a highly welfare prone group (refugees) among Swedishmunicipalities as an instrument. The IV estimates indicate that there exists a “race-to-thebottom”and that the effect is economically as well as statistically significant. This result isrobust to several alternative model specifications.• Franzén, Mats (2009) Between pleasure and virtue – ambivalences of public spacetoday. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu (The Finnish Journal of Urban Studies) 47(3): 6–23.This article, written by one of the sociology professors at the Institute, represents IBF’sresearch on urban life and urban place, as discussed in section A3. The contribution of thearticle lies in its conceptualization of the present use of, and struggle for, public space asplayed out between everyday (consumer) pleasures and civic virtues; encompassing both<strong>aspects</strong>, it demonstrates the very ambivalence of present day public space.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 8<strong>KoF11</strong>• Lindbom, Anders (2007) Obfuscating retrenchment: Swedish welfare policy in the1990s. Journal of Public Policy 27(2): 129–150.http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X07000645This paper, published in a leading political science journal, uses Swedish welfareprogrammes, including housing allowances, to operationalize, develop and test a centraltheory in welfare state research. It develops better data on public cutbacks than those used inprevious studies. The results strongly question existing academic research about Swedishwelfare reforms as well as common understandings regarding the influence that externalactors, such as trade unions and retirees’ organizations, have had on such reforms.• Evans, Chris & Göran Rydén (2007) Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in theEighteenth Century. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.This internationally well-reviewed book takes its beginning in Sweden’s position within theglobal economy of the eighteenth century. The analysis circulates around the making andtrading of iron, inserted into a model of towns and urban development. The Swedish bar ironties together towns and places in three different continents around the Atlantic Ocean –Leufsta, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, London, Bristol, Birmingham, Calabar and Charleston.The book reveals a fruitful international collaboration as well as IBF’s competence in globalmatters in earlier periods.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 9<strong>KoF11</strong>A5. Select and present a list of publications – or other research outputs – representingrenewal of research activity at the department.• Nilsson, Kjell, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Terry Hartig, Sjerp de Vries, KlausSeeland & Jasper Schipperijn (eds.) (2011) Forests, Trees and Human Health. NewYork: Springer.The book addresses the value of contact with natural settings such as parks, in particular forurban populations. It exemplifies the involvement of IBF researchers in large networks ofresearchers and practitioners. In addition to the co-editor role (with other co-editors comingfrom Denmark, the UK, Greece, Switzerland and the Netherlands), the IBF contributor coauthoredthree chapters with researchers from 10 European countries. The three chaptersreflect the range of concerns in the field, from issues in basic research to the interplay ofresearch and practice in environmental design and management.• Hertting, Nils (2007) Mechanisms of governance network formation – A contextualrational choice perspective, in Jacob Torfing & Eva Sorensen (eds.) Theories ofDemocratic Network Governance. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.This paper develops an original and highly promising theoretical perspective on networkgovernance in relation to urban renewal, with inspiration from game theory. It specifies thetheoretical framework for IBF’s research on urban governance, one of the promising researchdirections mentioned in section A3. The paper was published in an edited volume togetherwith contributions from a number of the most renowned scholars in this field.• Monaco, Sara (2008) Neighbourhood Politics in Transition: Residents’ Associationsand Local Government in Post-Apartheid Cape Town. Uppsala: Acta UniversitatisUpsaliensis. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:171377/FULLTEXT01This PhD dissertation in political science concerns neighbourhood associations in SouthAfrica after apartheid, and the interaction between such associations, political parties andlocal government. It is an innovative contribution to theories about “political opportunitystructures” and to IBF’s research on governance in relation to civic society and the local state.Professor Jo Beall, expert on South Africa at London School of Economics, acted as facultyopponent and described the dissertation as “the best case study of South Africa I have everread”.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 10<strong>KoF11</strong>A6. Present a list of publications not included in the DiVA database (UU AcademicArchive On-line) – optional.Andersson, R. & Söderberg, Bo (2008), Regionala fastighetsskatter kan ge bättreinfrastruktur (“Regional property taxes may provide improved infrastructure”). EkonomiskDebatt, 36, 57-69.Dahlberg, Matz & Edmark, K. (2008) Is there a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ in the setting of welfarebenefit levels? Evidence from a policy intervention. Journal of Public Economics 92(5-6):1193-1209.Dahlberg, Matz & Gustavsson, M. (2008) Inequality and crime: Separating the effects ofpermanent and transitory income. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 70(2):129-153.Dahlberg, Matz, Johansson, K & Mörk, E. (2008) On mandatory activation of welfarereceivers. Uppsala: Department of Economics, Uppsala University. Working paper;Department of Economics, 2008:13.Dahlberg, Matz, Lundqvist H & Mörk E. (2008) Intergovernmental Grants and BureaucraticPower. Uppsala: Department of Economics, Uppsala University. Working paper;Department of Economics, 2008:12.Dahlberg, Matz, & Mörk, E. (2008) Is there an election cycle in public employment?Separating time effects from election year effects. Working papers, Nationalekonomiskainstitutionen, 2008: 4.Englund, P., Gunnelin, Å, Hendershott P.H. & Söderberg, Bo (2008) Adjustment in propertyspace markets: Taking long-term leases and transaction costs seriously. Real EstateEconomics, 36, 81-109.Holmberg, Tora (2008) A feeling for the animal: On becoming an experimentalist. Society &Animals, 16(4): 316-335.Holmberg, Tora (2008) Discussions on biologi. Gender scholars talk about bodily matters,Crossroads of Knowledge, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University.Holmberg, Tora (2009) Handling transgenic dilemmas in practice, in Holmberg, Tora (ed.)Investigating human/animal relations in science, culture and work, Crossroads ofknowledge, no. 10, Centre for Gender Research, pp. 190-213: Uppsala University.Holmberg, Tora, Ideland, Malin (2009) Transgenic silences. The rhetoric of comparisonsand the construction of transgenic mice as ‘ordinary exclusivities’. Biosocieties 4(2): 165-181.Holmberg, Tora (2009) Introduction, in Holmberg, Tora (ed.) Investigating human/animalrelations in science, culture and work, Crossroads of knowledge, no. 10, Centre forGender Research: Uppsala University.Holmberg, Tora (2007) Monster och gränser för det mänskliga. Ekokritik: naturen ilitteraturen, CEMUS, Centrum för miljö och utvecklingsstudier, Uppsala universitet, no.1, pp. 77–90.Holmberg, Tora, Palm, Fredrik (2009) The body that speaks the gap, in Bromseth, Janne,Käll, Lisa, Mattsson, Katarina (eds) Body claims, Crossroads of knowledge, no. 9, pp.190-213, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University.Holmberg, Tora (2007) Samtal om biologi. Genusforskare talar om kön och kropp, Skrifterfrån Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet.Holmberg, Tora (2010) Tail tales. How researchers handle transgenic dilemmas. NewGenetics and Society 29(1): 37-54.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>Räterlinck, Lennart E. H. (2008) Motsatser och överskridande. Om dualismens dilemma,den omöjliga observatören och befrielse bortom åtskiljande, i Sverre Wide, Fredrik Palm& Misheva Wessela (red.) n()n()a()g()e()n()t(). Om kunskap, kärlek och ingentingsärskiljt. (pp. 101-129). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen.Räterlinck, Lennart E. H. (2009) “Mats Börjesson & Alf Rehn, Makt”, SociologiskForskning, 46(2): 56-58.Räterlinck, Lennart E. H. (2010) “Adrian Johnston, Badiou, Žižek, and PoliticalTransformations. The Cadence of Change”, Sociologisk forskning 47(3): 87-89.Räterlinck, Lennart E. H. (2010) “Pierre Rosanvallon, Demokratin som problem”,Sociologisk forskning 47(1): 100-102.Räterlinck, Lennart E. H. (2010) “Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce”,Sociologisk Forskning 47(2): 116-118.Ågren, H, Dahlberg, Matz, Mörk E. (2007) Do politicians’ preferences correspond to thoseof the voters? An investigation of political representation. Public Choice 130(1-2): 137-162.Publications produced and financed within IBF projects authored by affiliated researchers atother departmentsBorevi, Karin & Gunnar Myrberg (2010) Välfärdsstaten och de nyanlända: Enflyktingsplaceringspolitisk probleminventering. Malmö Institute of Migration WorkingPaper Series 10:3. Malmö: Malmö Institute of Migration Studies.Borevi, Karin (2008) Mångkulturalism på reträtt, pp. 408–424 in Sverker Gustavsson et al.,eds. Statsvetare ifrågasätter. Uppsalamiljön vid tiden för professorsskiftet den 31 mars2008. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.Borevi, Karin (2010) Dimensions of citizenship: European integration policies from aScandinavian perspective, pp. 19–46 in Ann-Helén Bay, Bo Bengtsson & Per Strömblad,eds. Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Borevi, Karin (2010) Sverige – mångkulturalismens flaggskepp i Norden, pp. 43–130 in GreteBrochmann & Anniken Hagelund. Velferdens grenser. Innvandringspolitikk ogvelferdsstat i Skandinavia 1945–2010. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.Krekula, Clary (2009) Eldres boliger som sosial kapital: Om heterogena nettverk medvarierande roller, pp. 113-123 in Rønning, Rolf & Starrin, Bengt (eds) Sosial kapital i etvelferdsperspektiv. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.Myrberg, Gunnar (2007) Medlemmar och medborgare. Föreningsdeltagande och politisktengagemang i det etnifierade samhället. PhD dissertation in political science. Uppsala:Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.Myrberg, Gunnar (2009) Föreningsdeltagande och föreningsattityder bland stockholmare medbakgrund i Chile, Sverige och Turkiet, i Bo Bengtsson & Clarissa Kugelberg (eds.)Föreningsliv, delaktighet och lokal politik i det mångkulturella samhället. Malmö: Egalité(pp. 31–56).Myrberg, Gunnar (2009) Uppföljning av Vetenskapsrådets satsningar på mångvetenskapligtorganiserad demokratiforskning. Underlagsrapport. Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet.Myrberg, Gunnar (2010) Who is an immigrant?, in Bo Bengtsson, Per Strömblad & Ann-Helén Bay (eds.) Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Newcastle uponTyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (pp. 47–74).2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>Strömblad, Per & Gunnar Myrberg (2008) Urban Inequality and Political RecruitmentNetworks. Arbetssrapport 2008:3. Stockholm: Institutet för Framtidsstudier.Thörn, Catharina (2007) Dressed for success: Entreprenurial cities, sports and public space, inthe proceedings of the ESF-LiU Conference: Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives onUrban Identities in a Mediatized World. Linköping: Linköping University ElectronicPress.Thörn, Catharina (2007) Governing the entrepreneurial city – implications for the meaning ofpublic space, in Ingemar Elander & Frank Eckardt (eds.) Urban Governance. Berlin:Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag BWV.Thörn, Catharina (2010) Fishing for authenticity, in Holgersson, Thörn, Thörn & Wahlström(eds.) Researching Gothenburg. Göteborg: Glänta.Thörn, Catharina (2010) Staden som tillväxtmaskin eller allmänning, in Röster från Slussen.A5 Press.Thörn, Catharina (editor together with Helena Holgersson, Håkan Thörn & MattiasWahlström) (2010) Researching Gothenburg. Essays in a changing city. Göteborg:Glänta.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 13<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effects orimplications of KoF07 for the department.Despite receiving a high grade by the KoF07 evaluators (“high international standard”), IBFdid not get any extra university funding as a result of that exercise. We think this relates to thefact that we already had a high level of faculty funding. We have however taken severalmeasures to ensure that we can sustain and develop our research quality with the given levelof funding. Below follows comments on <strong>aspects</strong> brought up by the KoF07 evaluators or bythe Faculty of Social Sciences in response to the KoF07 report.The KoF07 evaluators saw the potential for more cross-disciplinary research to develop. Wehave paid attention to this and have taken organizational as well as research-related measuresto increase cooperation, over and above the previously mentioned intensification of seminaractivity. In terms of organizational initiatives we have created a new forum for crossdisciplinarydiscussions (forskarkollegium). IBF researchers meet four times annually todiscuss research and new initiatives. This has resulted in – for example – the launching of theUppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Studies. The selection of international candidates forthis award is made by a group representing different disciplines at IBF. The experience fromthe first event in 2010 was very positive, and the award will be conferred annually hereinafter.This will not only promote discussion across disciplines at IBF but will also increase ourvisibility within Uppsala University as well as strengthen our international networks.In terms of research cooperation, several externally funded research projects now involveresearchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, the prime example being the IMERprogramme support (see A2 i).Since 2007 and in line with our specific demand concerning post-KoF07-related extrafunding, we have taken steps to further develop our strategically important databases (seeA3). We have now hired a researcher part-time to help researchers needing assistance with thehandling of register data.The KoF07 report stated: “Every second year IBF has arranged a multidisciplinary seminarfor housing and urban researchers in the other Nordic countries. IBF should continue thisvaluable network building activity.” We agree with the evaluators that we fulfil an importantrole in a Nordic research context. We arranged a Nordic (NSBB) seminar in 2010 and wehave also entered into a Norface-funded Nordic research programme on segregation andintegration, involving geographers, sociologists and political scientists also from Finland,Denmark and Norway. This 4-year project grant was won in the toughest possible Europeancompetition (only 12 out of 240 applications were successful) and it will be of key importancefor advancing Nordic research cooperation on strategically important research issues.The 2007 report also mentions our important role with respect to the public debate on housingand urban issues in Sweden. We have continued to carry out some commissioned work forministries, state boards, county boards, municipalities and housing-related organizations. Wehave also continued to organize our traditional “Housing week” (in 2008 and 2010), theleading forum in the country for presenting housing and urban research and discussing policyrelatedissues with participants from the public and private as well as university sectors.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 14<strong>KoF11</strong>The KoF07 evaluators noticed that one of our disciplines (Economics) faced acute problemsfollowing the retirement of one professor and the tragic death of another (Bengt Turner).Since 2007, we have successfully recruited one new professor, one new lecturer and recentlyalso one assistant professor. New PhD students have also been recruited. We now have a verystrong group of Economics researchers that will contribute not only to the discipline as suchbut also to our cross-disciplinary research efforts, including the IMER programme.Finally, in the Faculty’s follow-up on KoF07, we were asked whether the location of theinstitute in Gävle was beneficial or not. This issue has been extensively discussed by allemployees at IBF, including the research staff, the PhDs, the administration and the IBFboard. We initiated a relocation investigation by the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2010 andare now having an intensive dialogue with the Faculty concerning an actual move in 2012.At present, a large majority of the staff resides in Stockholm or Uppsala and this will mostlikely become even more pronounced in the years to come. IBF researchers split their timebetween a disciplinary department in Uppsala (20 percent) and IBF (80 percent). We find thismodel very productive and beneficial for IBF as well as for the disciplinary departments. IfIBF were to be located in Uppsala this cooperation would be even more effective than today.Another, related argument in favour of moving is that we will be able to further strengthen ourseminar, both by bringing more researchers from outside to our own interesting seminars (i.e.,from the disciplinary departments) and by making it easier for external presenters to accept aninvitation to give seminars. Furthermore, PhDs follow a 4-year programme. We fund themfrom day one but they spend little or no time at IBF during their first year of studies. If IBFwere to be located in Uppsala, the PhDs could interact more effectively with IBF-basedsupervisors and benefit from our lively research environment.We would finally like to add that several senior members of staff belonging to the firstgeneration of IBF researchers will retire in the coming 2-5 years. We believe that stayingsuccessful depends on being able to recruit the very best researchers within our field and thatour opportunities to recruit from within and outside of Sweden will be even moreadvantageous with a location in Uppsala.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 15<strong>KoF11</strong>A8. Present a list of significant prizes and awardsJie Chen (male, age 34), 2008, The 9th Shanghai Award for Outstanding Achievements inPhilosophy and Social Science, Internal Discussion Category, awarded by The Committee ofShanghai Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Science.Tora Holmberg (female, age 39), 2007, The Torgny T. Segerstedt Prize for best article of theyear in the journal Sociologisk Forskning. The prize is awarded by the board of the SwedishSociological Association.Tora Holmberg (female, age 39), 2007, The Katrin Fridjonsdottir Prize in Sociology ofKnowledge. The prize is awarded every three years to young researchers in the sociology ofknowledge, by the Faculty of Social Sciences in Uppsala on the proposal of professors ofSociology at Uppsala and Lund University.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 16<strong>KoF11</strong>A9. Additional sources of informationIBF’s homepage: http://www.ibf.uu.se/index_eng.htmlFurther information about the group of economists at IBF:http://www.ibf.uu.se/ALLMANT/economics.htmlFurther information about the group of geographers at IBF:http://www.ibf.uu.se/ALLMANT/geography.htmlFurther information about the group of political scientists at IBF:http://www.ibf.uu.se/ALLMANT/politicals.htmlFurther information about the group of sociologists at IBF:http://www.ibf.uu.se/ALLMANT/sociology.htmlFurther information about other tenured researchers at IBF (the “solitaires”):http://www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/terry/terry.html (Terry Hartig, environmental psychology)http://www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/clarissa/clarissa.html (Clarissa Kugelberg, anthropology)http://www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/goran/goran.html (Göran Rydén, economic history)Dilemmas of Diversity: http://www.ibf.uu.se/diversityA multidisciplinary research program at IBF, concerned with ethnic integration andsegregation in the city, funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social ResearchUppsala Center for Labor Studies: http://ucls.nek.uu.seCenter of Excellence funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research;economists Matz Dahlberg and Tove Eliasson from IBF participateUppsala Center for Fiscal Studies: http://ucfs.nek.uu.seCenter of Excellence funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and SocialResearch; economist Matz Dahlberg from IBF participatesHousing, Theory and Society: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14036096.htmlAn international academic journal that aims to encourage the application anddevelopment of social theory in the housing field. The journal is owned by IBF, andmembers of the IBF staff sit on its editorial board.International Journal of Housing Policy:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14616718.htmlA forum for the critical analysis of housing policy, published by IBF together withdepartments of housing and urban research in Glasgow, Delft and York. The prefect ofIBF sits on the management board of the journal.2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 17<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> B: Quantitative summary of research activitiesB1. Engagement and involvement in the scientific society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberPlenary or keynote talks at international conferences 33 11Invited talks at international conferences 154 21Assignment in research councils and foundations 7 6Assignment as expert at evaluations for professor and lecturer 14 8positionsAssignment as editor or member of editorial boards 18 10Member of international scientific councils 3 3Member of academies and learned societies 5 4Hosting of major conferences 20 6Supervision of PhD students 106 17Opponent at formal dissertation defense (disputation) 18 9Member of faculty appointed dissertation grading committee 47 13Membership in professional organizations 37 13Referee reports for scientific journals >200 22Number ofindividualscontributingB2. Actions for renewal (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberExternal recruitments (with doctoral exam from another university) 2Internal recruitments (with doctoral exam from Uppsala University)12(including 7 previous PhD students at IBF recruited to post-doc or researcherpositions)Number of granted external funds for new projects 15Number of projects within commissioned research, e.g. gov. agencies 15B3. International collaboration (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberResearch visits abroad (of at least 3 months duration) 5Visiting researchers (of at least 3 months duration) 2Number of collaborating institutions with joint publications 57<strong>Part</strong>icipation in funded multinational research/networking projects 32011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 18<strong>KoF11</strong>B4. Engagement and interaction with society (since Jan. 2007)TotalnumberAdjunct professorships 0Popular science papers/books 29Textbooks 14Spin-off commercial companies 0Governmental/societal assignments 51Invited talks at national conferences and workshops 147Interviews for international and national media >100Talks and presentations at the annual “Housing meeting” in Gävle 322011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0

Uppsala University 19<strong>KoF11</strong><strong>Part</strong> C: Data extracted from common databases<strong>Part</strong> C will include data regarding:• Personnel1. Professor (Chair and promoted)2. Senior Lecturer3. Researcher4. Postdoc and Assist. Professor5. Doctoral students6. Other staff (all categories except the above)• Examinations from postgraduate studies, lic/PhD• Publications (summaries)• Economy (research related)C1. If motivated, comment upon the extracted dataSection on “Research exams”The Institute accepts students for PhD studies in geography, economics, sociology andpolitical science. Our PhD students are funded by and perform their research at IBF, but theirformal examination takes place at one of the disciplinary departments and their exams aretherefore not registered at IBF.Between 2007 and 2010, IBF-funded PhD students have successfully completed 9 doctoralexams and 1 licentiate exam.Section on “Economy”The item “(210) research/res. education” exaggerates the resources available for research atIBF. First, faculty funded posts at IBF are divided between research and administration at theInstitute (typically 80%) and teaching and supervision at the disciplinary departments withinthe Faculty of Social Sciences (typically 20%). Second, item 210 also includes funding forjourneys between Gävle and Uppsala and some external funding, mainly related to theadministration of the ENHR (European Network for Housing Research). The adjusted figurefor 2010 is 18.8 MSEK (instead of 22.4 MSEK).2011-02-28 Inst for Housing and Urban Research v 1.0